Hello, can you tell me the differences of those phrasal verbs?
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When you turn something into something else you transform it. The phrase is often used in a figurative sense as in the following quote from the Bible: In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding, and when the wine runs out, Jesus delivers a sign of his divinity by turning water into wine .
When you change something into something else you convert it. For example, you can change an MS Word file into a PDF file, this means that you convert the file from MS Word into PDF format.
"To turn into” is stronger in meaning than “to change into ”, because it’s like becoming something new, instead of just getting different.
Please let me know if this makes sense.
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Your explanation is very useful! Thank you so much!
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