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| Fake News: How to Check Your Facts Fake news is essentially false information that is presented as true and appears at first glance to be from a trustworthy source. But don’t believe all that you read. In this article, we … |
| Perfect Tenses - How to Form In addition to the three main tenses of present, past, and future, the English language allows us to make three statements about accomplished facts. We use one of the three perfect tenses to show an … |
| A Summary of Verbs We’re going to return to verbs in more detail below, but now let’s summarize what you’ve learned. For right now, you need to remember that all verbs break down into five groups. A Summary … |
| Antecedents - Placement of Pronouns Before we discuss the other types of pronouns, let’s pause and discuss the concept of pronoun antecedents. When you use a pronoun, it will typically refer to a word somewhere close by. That is, th… |
| 7. Reciprocal Pronouns Each Other and One Another We have only two of these pronouns, they come in pairs, and they typically appear as objects: each other and one another. We use them to show some sort … |
| mendacious - vocabulary adjective Untrue, false; habitually telling lies, dishonest. For the last week, I've been intimately involved with Jack Nicholson. He's both a charmer and a cliché. Passionate about truth in his a… |
| Broach vs. Brooch She sat on the couch, handed me a pearl brooch and broached the sensitive subject of her declining health.Broach and broach are two words that have same pronunciation and almost similar spellings (wi… |
| Nose vs. Knows The English language is a complex tapestry woven with words that, despite sounding alike, can have vastly different meanings and origins. Among such pairs are the words 'nose' and |
| Math vs. Maths If you ever got into contact with the word "mathematics", you have certainly also seen at least one of the nouns from the pair "math" and "maths". But which one is correct? How do you spell it shortl… |
| Price vs. Rate The terms 'price' and 'rate' are often used interchangeably in everyday language, yet they embody distinct meanings that are critical in various contexts, particular… |
| So vs. Such So So is a conjunction. It can join two sentences. · I like her, so, I want to date her. · I want to wa… |
| Into vs. In to Although considered an easy and simple language, English language has its fair share of confusions. There are many words that are spelled and spoken the same way but have some minor differences in wr… |
| Office vs. Officer Office vs. OfficerTheir similar spellings aside, "office" and "officer" have another key aspect in common: they both function as nouns, in any context or phrase. This means that it’s even harder to s… |
| What What is generally a compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as, "This is What I wanted;" that is, that which, or, the thing which I wanted.… |
| A General Summary of Nouns At this stage, we are still just exploring the eight parts of speech. The first is the noun. Above, we learned that nouns serve to name things, people, places, ideas, feelings, and other abstractions… |
| Compound Adjectives - A Long List Here, for your reference, is a long list of the most frequently encountered types of compound adjectives and the rules on hyphenation. When in doubt, always check the dictionary. Compound … |
| acronym, initialism An acronym is a pronounceable name made up of a series of initial letters or parts of words; for example, UNESCO for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. An initi… |
| handful, handfuls The proper plural is handfuls, not handsful. Consider this usage note from Dictionary.com. The plurals of nouns ending in -ful are usually formed by adding -s to … |
| indexes, indices The preferred plural is indexes. Use indices when you mean “indicators.” Scientists and mathematicians, however, prefer indices in technical writing… |
| anathema - vocabulary anathema -noun A person or thing loathed, hated, or detested; a curse or execration, as in This topic is anathema to him. Note: The plural is anathemas. Give me y… |
| Fiber vs. Fibre Every fiber of her body was throbbing with pain after the crash. Pay attention to the word fiber in the above sentence and think about it. Do you believe that fiber used here must have different spel… |
| Peer vs. Pier Pier and peer are homophones, meaning they sound alike but are spelled differently, and mean different things. They are also easily confused words. The spell-check application in word-processing soft… |
| Older vs. Elder Sometime back, we wrote an article about oldest vs eldest. On similar lines, today let us explore the comparative version – older vs elder. Usually to talk about 2 or more things, we use old or ol… |
| Much, Many, More... Much A typical example of much is ‘how much?’ which tells about an uncountable quantity. No one knows how to count the ‘much’. For example ‘Much has been spoken about the topic but without any concl… |
| Genitive Case The English grammar is full of terms and words that we are rarely familiar about but still use them in our everyday language and speaking. Talking about grammatical cases is giving meaning to such a … |
