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| Problem Words - Definition, Overview, and Lists of Examples The Troublemakers Many words in the English language set traps for even the most accomplished writer. Here, on Grammar.com, we’ve provided discussions of over 200 of these trouble… |
| Won’t vs. Wouldn’t Won’tWon’t is a modal verb. It is the short form (contraction) for ‘will not’. It is the negative of the word ‘will’. It is used to talk about future tense. It is always used with an apostrophe (‘).E… |
| Ability vs. Capability Ability – Ability to do some task means that you can do it and have done it in the past. Ability determines a person’s skill or level of expertise. In other words, it denotes the quality of being ab… |
| Among vs. Amongst Amongst" is obviously formed by adding the suffix "-st" to the preposition "among". But you have probably always seen both of these terms used in the same context, just like they mean the same. Then … |
| Farther vs. Further At some point, “farther” and “further” do mean the same thing. Or, more exactly, you can use whichever you prefer, in a certain context. And this is also the point where all confusions and doubts sta… |
| Rule of Parallel Structure Though we’ll study parallel construction in the eBook Developing a Powerful Writing Style, I must introduce the concept here, for producing a parallel series requires the use of two of the conjunctio… |
| Amend vs. Emend You will rarely see "emend" spelled like this, rather than "amend". But you might, and it's important that you know it's not a misspelling, as you may be tempted to think at a first sight, only becau… |
| Learned vs. Learnt What is the past tense of learn? Consider the following sentence:I learnt French last year.Are you getting thoughts in your mind that say that this sentence has got something wrong in it? Maybe it’s … |
| Encase vs. Incase The doubts created by the pair of words “encase” and “incase” are a normal effect of their similarity in pronunciation and writing. Words that are spelled almost identically often create confusions a… |
| Check vs. Cheque The fact that you see words spelled very similarly and used with the same meaning often can be overwhelming, especially if you are not sure whether both of them are correct. The same applies to "chec… |
| Ageing vs. Aging Ageing vs. Aging Conversion is one of the most important methods of word formation in English. The English vocabulary has obtained plenty of new nouns and adjectives using conversion from verbs, f… |
| Former vs. Latter We already discussed about what "latter" means and when it should be used, in a previous article, where we actually outlined the difference between "latter" and "later" and explained how to make sure… |
| States of Adjectives: -er or more, -est or most Adjectives Comparative and Superlative You ask, therefore, how to tell when to use the ‑er and ‑est endings and when to use the helping words more and most? There’s no hard and fa… |
| Distrustful vs. Mistrustful Origin of the words Distrustful Distrustful is an adjective of the word distrust, which is the opposite of trust and simply means absence of trust. The word first originated in 1505-15 and is in the… |
| Fahrenheit vs. Celsius The Fahrenheit Temperature Scale and the Celsius Temperature Scale are both systems which measure weather temperatures. • What is the history of these two systems?• What … |
| Remember vs Reminder vs Remainder Remember Remember is a verb which means to think of an occurrence in the past or to keep in mind something that has been told. Examples – · Always rem… |
| Inflict vs. Afflict Inflict” and “afflict” illustrates one of the most frequent linguistic confusions amongst English users. Not only do they have almost identical spellings, but their lexical significations also have a… |
| Situations Requiring the Subjunctive Mood Let’s explore the modern uses of the subjunctive mood. 1. situations contrary to fact 2. wishes 3. suppositions 4. commands 1. Situations Contrary to Fact |
| Auxiliary verbs BE ‘To be’ means to exist. ‘Be’ can be used in many ways. · To form continuous tenses – present, past, future – be takes the form of am, is, are, was, were, will be – o … |
| Adjective vs. Adverb We all learned about the different parts of speech in high school and most of us can easily distinguish between a noun and a verb. But when it comes to an adjective and an adverb, it is a little hard… |
| Sentence Structures A sentence is any group of words that appear together and make up a complete thought. There are different types of sentences which are found in English language like possessive sentence, infinite sen… |
| I hope you’ve learned to fix the chapter title… Our chapter read: “Bring along this advice when you go to work.” But now you know that “bring” and “go” don’t comfortably fit in the same sentence. So we’ll fix it like this: <… |
| Somber vs. Sombre Somber and sombre are a pair or words that are opposite to homophones that is, they have different spellings but same meaning. The words like these with different spellings and same meaning causes eq… |
| Transitive Verbs Verbs with Objects As Amber and Igor became grammatically aware, Amber noticed that action verbs came in two models. One described someone (the subject) doing something (the verb)… |
| “There is” - Huge Grammatical Mistake I’ll go out on a limb: Sometime today, most people reading this section will make this grammatical mistake, perhaps not in writing, but certainly in speech. Listen carefully to your sentences startin… |
