Answer:
Non-living thing is never alive.
Dead thing was once alive.
Living things can breathe, grow, reproduce, detect and respond to the changes in the environment, excrete, use the energy from the environment. E.g., Animals
Non-living things don't exhibit these characteristics. E.g., Soil, air
Let's take an example of living things, say lion. When a lion dies, we never say,”Lion has become a non living thing now”. But we say,” Lion is dead”. Death can only happen to living things.
Lion is dead now. But it was once alive.
But soil is never alive. Never dead too!
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