Tall and high.

[Vietanhpham_Winter]

Could you help me to differentiate the two words? Can we say a high man as well as a tall tree?
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[Alan]

Hi,

When talking of people's height we would use 'short' or 'tall', although both 'tall' and 'high' can be used for things such as buildings.

Alan.
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[Vietanhpham_Winter]

Yes Mr. Alan. That's also my idea. But do we use tall for things that have extraordinary height like buildings or sycamores(I'm not sure whether this is a kind of tree)?
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[Ellesbells]

Sycamore is a kind of tree and it would not make sense to a native speaker of you called a tree "high" unless you said something like "its branches are high above the ground." I believe it is ok to use "tall" to describe things with great height, unless it goes with a preposition (you wouldn't say "its branches are tall above the ground").