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Choose the type of analogy used in this sentence:

Water is to moisten as spade is to dig.

synonym analogy
antonym analogy
description analogy
function analogy

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Answer:

fuction analogy

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User Wade Tregaskis
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This should be a function analogy

That is because water is used to moisten something, and spades are used to dig something, which means we are comparing them by their function.
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