Mame wrote:Yes, but your paragraph is riddled with punctuation and grammatical errors.
Not to mention that "modified" means "changed", so it's redundant to use both.
Everything was going fine, .... , then the next day-- big trouble. Which was strange because nothing was modified or changed - to my knowledge."
As a transcription of speech, it doesn't seem all that bad, Mame. Possibly one or two punctuation changes if it were to go to publication.
I can't see any grammatical errors though and the two words, while they are synonyms, can have quite different meanings.
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M-W:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/change
change, alter, vary, modify mean to make or become different. change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another ...