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Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

Learning English Vocabulary

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Classic Music or Classical Music?

Historic is another ICAL adjective, and it means connected to stories about the past. It describes something important or something that people will remember for a long time. We pronounce historic and historical with the stress on the same syllable in both words,. And it's the same with classic and classical. This time, CLAH. Now listen again to one more clip. Mostly, I borrow books from the library. It's much more economical. So, we use the adjective economical, or as some people say, economical, with I-C-A-L, Ickle. But the adjective economic with I- C has a different meaning. Economic means connected to the subject of money

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