Sunday, 21 June 2020

Words From The Same Family - Intelligent v Intelligence


Intelligent (adj) - showing the ability to learn and understand things easily. 

  • She's clearly very intelligent, but her lectures are hard to follow.
  • Wilson, our quiet accountant, surprised us with his intelligent ideas over lunch yesterday.


Intelligence (noun) - the ability to learn, understand and make judgement based on reason.

  • I was surprised someone of his intelligence hardly reads.
  • William is blessed with good looks and intelligence, and he knows it.