Difference between Tending and Inclined

What is the difference between Tending and Inclined?

Tending as a verb is (old english law) to make a tender of; to offer or tender. while Inclined as an adjective is at an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.

Tending

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Action of the verb to tend.

Example sentence: How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Inclined

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.

Example sentence: Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

We hope you now know whether to use Tending or Inclined in your sentence.

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