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'Electric shop' vs 'Electrical shop'. Which one is correct? - I'll go to the electric shop to buy that. - I'll go to the electrical shop to buy that. Thank you very much in advance.
30 oct. 2015 16:36
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Electric: pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity. Electric, in many cases is used interchangeably with electrical, is often restricted to the description of particular devices or to concepts relating to the flow of current: e.g., electric bell; electric cord; electric shock; electric guitar; electric fire; electric charge; electric oven; electric current; electric eel; electric car. Electrical is used in a more general sense, often to refer to the use of electricity as a whole as opposed to other forms of energy: e.g., electrical engineering; an electrical appliance; an electrical consultant; an electrical storm; electrical systems. Electronic is used to refer to equipment, such as television sets, computers, etc, in which the current is controlled by transistors, valves, and similar components and also referring to the components themselves: e.g., electronic parts; electronic circuit boards. Electronic relates to electrical devices that amplify and process electrical signals: e.g., audio amplifiers, radios, and digital circuitry are electronic devices. The scientific study of the behavior and design of electronic devices and circuits is called electronics.
30 octobre 2015
Electrical shop that is correct.
30 octobre 2015
Electrical. There are few actual electrical shops in the US and we refer to the section of the store dedicated to electrical stuff as the electrical aisle(s) or electrical department. For small electronics/etc. we do have some electronics stores left, though most of this is done online now.
30 octobre 2015
Thank you very much, Merlyn. So, the word 'italki' should be a proper name. But if we say 'Website', it's only a general name. Is that right? By the way, if you have any questions about the Persian language, I can help you. But as you know, there are several dialects of Persian. I don't know which dialect you like, actually.
31 octobre 2015
To directly answer your question, both "electric" and "electrical" are correct, they are both adjectives with the same meaning. Anyway, proper name= a proper noun that is not a title (Doctor is a proper noun that is not a name, it is a title) If say 'I am going to the grocery store', "grocery store" is a general name/noun. There are many proper names of grocery stores like Tesco's in Britain and Aldi's here in America. "Tesco's" is a proper name, that is why it is capitalised. If you know what grocery store you are going to, you say 'I'm going to Tesco's'. It is also a person's name I think, so to give another example here we have an electronics store called "Best Buy". Because you see if we called every grocery store "Grocery Store" we wouldn't know which one we mean.There was a restaurant called the Rainbow Room, that is a proper name, the Ritz Hotel is a proper name. I am going to the hotel. (general) I am going to the Ritz Hotel (proper), Abbasi Hotel or Azadi Tower in Tehran. I can't tell Iran ' You can't call it Freedom Tower because a tower can't be free', Iran can name it's buildings whatever it wants, right? The shop in your picture has a big bright sign in front that says "Electric Shop" so that is the proper name of the shop, and not just a general name. As someone said there aren't many shops that sell only electric supplies, and usually their general name catagory includes the word "supplies", but those that do exist sell the kind of things for building houses or work that an electrician would do,or in large quantities. Shops that sell electric appliences like refrigerators, cookers, washing machines and dryers etc. are sometimes called appliance shops and those are also disapearing. Often they would have another name with "electric" like "Smith's Electrics" or the like. Things like irons, toasters and coffee makers are found in a section of department stores, there is not usually a separate shop that sells just those items.
31 octobre 2015
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