basketball is better then football!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes you can compare and contrast football and basketball. You can find similarities and differences between any two objects in the universe, even identical twins!
If you're going to contrast football you need to know what to contrast it with. You've just posted this question from school without any thought, in the hopes that some mug will answer it for you.
When you can not contrast or compare.
Compare and contrast it with what?
1. Compare 2. Contrast
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Well, there has to be some purpose :] In a compare and contrast essay you compare and contrast the different aspects of a topic!
compare is when you compare two things that are the same and contrast is when you compare two things that are different.