Frequent and Often

Frequent

Frequent adjective - Appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time.

Often and frequent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Often" instead an adjective "Frequent".

Often

Often adverb - Many times.

Frequent and often are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Frequent" instead an adjective "Often".

Both words in one sentence

  • Mary's appearances are much more frequent and often triggered by the belief of old devout ladies.
  • Some actors stayed on from X-Men Legends, though by the second this became far less frequent and often actors staying on were cast in new roles.
  • Rule of Funny Bluebottle's resurrections are justified in later series by his inhabiting a separate but overlapping (and equally real) reality to the other characters, in which they are all children playing games, and his frequent and often contrived "deading" is the others not playing fair.
    Source: Rule of Funny
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