Mt. Everest is the highest mountain, right? So what is the difference between tall and high?
when do we use high and when do we use tall?
A bulb's out. the ceiling's too high. I can't reach. we use high to talk about how far off the ground things are. so we talk about high ceilings. we talk about high heels. and we say planes fly high in the sky.
unicycle is a long off the ground, so is it high or is it tall?
well, the man riding it is high up, but we don't also say the unicycle is tall, because there is another rule we follow. when things are higher than they are wide, when things are higher than they are wide, we say tall. people are higher then they are wide, so we talk about tall people. how tall are you? three meters. here are some more things that are tall.
here the more thing that are tall: