metaphors compare two concepts that at first seem unrelated
In essence, critical thinking requires you to use your ability to reason. It is about being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of information.
Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value. They will always seek to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture and are open to finding that they do not.
Critical thinkers will identify, analyse and solve problems systematically rather than by intuition or instinct.
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<span>Proper adjectives have their initial letter capitalised,
for example American - derived from a proper noun America - or Victorian - derived from (queen) Victoria.
Common adjectives, on the contrary, don't have </span><span>their initial letter capitalised</span>, for example green, empty, colourful. Just remember that "common adjective" is not a scientific term used by linguists, it is informal.
