A few days ago
What is relationship between ‘occur ‘ and ‘happen’?
Or does it have any difference?
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Basically, they are synonyms (although I tend to think of things occurring at a particular point in time, while happening can be something ongoing. That may be my own usage bias, though).
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A few days ago
The two terms are interchangeable in some respect but what makes the one distinct from the other is predictivity (if there is such a word) .
Occurence is a happening that is not predictable. It happens but you do not have a time table. This can be applied to natural events such as tornados, lightning and rainbows.
Happen is a term more general in its application- bad things happen to good people- “it happens” applies to miniscule even inconsequential things.
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A few days ago
Occur is a synonym for happen and vice versa.
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