Master confusing words with ease
Floor vs. Ground
Floor
/flɔː/Examples:
Let us put Goldie here on the floor... and."She lives on the top floor.The stones in the floor had been taken away.
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Ground
/ɡraʊnd/Examples:
"And even if you broke out, you'd be on our grounds.The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north.Then suddenly, a lovelier object lay lifeless on the ground.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Floor typically refers to surfaces inside a building, like the floor of a room or hallway.
- Ground usually refers to the surface of the earth outside or beneath a building.
- Remember that you can walk on a floor inside a building, but you stand on the ground outside.
- When talking about levels in a building, we refer to them as floors, like the first floor or second floor.
- Even when a house is built, the ground around it stays as ground, while inside the house you have floors.
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