Historic and historical

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There are two similar adjectives in English - historical and historic. Yet, they aren't identical. Look at the examples and say

Which adjective means :

  • something important in history?
  • something connected to the study of history?
Try to use them in sentences:

  1. July 4th is a _____________ date for the US citizens. It was on this date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  2. This book has a lot of __________ inaccuracies.
  3. Archeologists found a new _______________ object. It doesn't have a lot of value, they say, but it reveals new facts about the past.
  4. I love reading __________ novels.
  5. When the Berlin wall came down, it was a ___________ occasion.
  6. Do you know that Tokyo hosted Olympics in 1964? Those were ________ Games, the first for Japan and all of Asia.
  7. Was King Arthur a real ______________ figure?
  8. Is this book a ___________ document or a fictional one?
  9. Let's do some ___________ research to find out what really happened.

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