The difference between aid and aide (grammar lesson)


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Aid means help or assistance. (To aid means to help or to assist.) Aide means helper or assistant.

Aid

The word aid means help or assistance. It is commonly seen as an adjective, a noun and a verb. (As a verb, it means to aid or to assist.)

Examples:

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.

(Basil King)

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

(Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC))

The noun aide means a helper or an assistant. An aide is a person.

Examples:

General McChrystal and his aides told the unvarnished truth.

The Libyan leader caused a scene at the African Heads of State Summit in Munyonyo when he slapped one of his aides for taking him to a wrong venue.

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