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What is the difference between necessary and necessarily ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between necessary and necessarily ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Biggest doesn’t necessary mean best.
Biggest doesn’t necessarily mean best.
Which is a correct sentence?
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One is an adjective and the other an adverb (Necessarily).
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Necessary is more used to define something as being absolutely needed.
"The meeting was necessary." Or
"I found living a healthy life was necessary to living a long one."
Necessarily is more used to oppose something.
"John said the sky is blue."
"That's not necessarily true, it can be pink and orange during sunsets." Or "Not necessarily, it can be pink and orange during sunsets."
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