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English: Scratching your heads over Grammar? Let’s sort out your common mistakes!
Borrow vs. Lend
To lend: to hand out usually for a certain length of time.
Libraries lend books.
“My friend lent me his guitar for our music practice.”
To borrow: to take with permission usually for a certain length of time.
You can borrow books from the libraries.
“I borrowed the guitar from my friend for our music practice.”
So, REMEMBER: Lend = Give (LG! ) & Borrow = Take (TB! )
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Hear vs. Listen
Hear: to receive or become aware of a sound, so you don't have to make an effort
That is why we say – He heard a noise. (perchance became aware of the sound in his ears)
Listen: to give attention to someone or something in order to hear them, so you make an effort
So, we can say to someone not paying attention: You haven't listened to a word I've said!
Listen is always used with the proposition “to”.
Sentence like “Can you hear me?” can be interpreted a lot by the tone they are spoken with – it can be anything from a simple check of being audible to actually asking “Are you even listening to me?”

HOWEVER, there are a few cases in which hear is used to mean something very close to listen to. In the examples below, listen to can easily replace hear.
I heard a really interesting programme on the radio this morning.
I heard the orchestra play at Carnegie Hall last summer.
An audience gathered to hear him speak.
Why is hear used instead of listen to in these cases? Maybe because the emphasis in each case is on the contents of what is heard rather than on the activity of listening.

On broad terms, REMEMBER: You can hear something without wanting to, but you can only listen to something intentionally.

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