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| Favor vs. Favour Languages can shift over time, even in different parts of the world. Many differences in spelling and usage have grown prominent between British and American English. Favor and favour, for instance, … |
| “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… |
| Cleft sentences and inversion Inverted sentences – Consider the following example – We have never seen this kind of support before. Here, the subject is ‘We’, ‘have’ is the auxiliary verb. Let us change the order now – Never ha… |
| Son vs. Sun Son vs. SunBesides their similar spellings and the fact that they both function as a noun within most phrases, the words ``son” and “sun” actually have nothing else in common. They are not synonyms, … |
| Beside vs. Besides Beside Beside is a preposition of place. It means ‘next to’. The word has originated from the old English adverb ‘be sidan’ meaning by the side. Examples – · My house is beside Tom’… |
| Discreet vs. Discrete The government’s discreet decision about the four discrete divisions caused a lot of uprising. The two very similar words; discreet and discrete are used in the above sentence, are you familiar with … |
| States of Adjective: -er or more, -est or most How to Form the States of Adjectives 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 fast… |
| Suffix Learning a language is an art at its best form. If you are a native English speaker, then you would probably already know much about the language and its grammar. But if you are an English learner li… |
| Altogether vs. All together It was an altogether decision to agree to all terms all together.If the above sentence has confused you to the core and you cannot decide if it’s right or wrong, worry not. We are here to help you wi… |
| Complaisant vs. Complacent John is a complaisant guy, I don’t know how he ended up marrying somebody as complacent as Mary.The above sentence have two adjectives in it; complaisant and complacent, which describe the character … |
| Chapter 2 - “Could of” “We could of used the right helping verb.” We understand where this mistake came from. It came from speech. The word “have” when joined with “could” to form “could have” sounds a … |
| Reward vs. Rewarding The pair of words "reward" and "rewarding" can be very tricky. Especially when it's not clear for you which one is the verb and which one is the noun - or even an adjective? Let's help to get your th… |
| interrogative pronoun We have various ways of asking questions in the English language. We can take a multiword verb form and put the subject between the auxiliary verb and the base infinitive, as in Do you mind? or Will … |
| Cancelled vs. Canceled A student’s best friend and a party lover’s worst enemy, cancel, has two possible forms of past tense, cancelled/canceled. Consider this: The English class has been cancelled today as the teacher is … |
| Regard vs. Regards: Which is Correct? Do we say, “in regard to” or “in regards to”? Do I “send you my regard” or “send you my regards”?Do you end your correspondence “with best regard” or “with best regards”? "Regard" or "regards."… |
| Designing an Ebook: A Comprehensive Guide This comprehensive guide is intended to demystify the ebook design process, providing step- by-step instructions to help you navigate each stage with ease and confidence. From defining your purpose a… |
| Enclosed vs. Inclosed What "enclosed" means probably anybody knows. If not, we'll explain it immediately below. There's nothing difficult about it. What is, anyway, questionable and often confusing, is the correct spellin… |
| Start a Sentence with a Conjunction And you may start a sentence with And. You probably learned in grade school: Never start a sentence with but, and, or any other conjunction. Poppycock! Not only can you start s… |
| Phrasal verbs with back 1. Back up Back up someone – to give support to someone. Examples – · We had to back her up till her room as she was very tired. · … |
| Passive voice and why we need it Here are some more practical examples of passive voice usage - 1. The cameras are watching you – it doesn't make much sense to say this. Instead, “You are being watched”… |
| Rejected vs. Dejected Rejected Rejected is the past tense and past participle of the word reject which means to not agree or accept for something. You reject something when it is unacceptable. For example – · … |
| 2. Where Do Adverbs Go? Many writers make a mistake. As we learned in the section on verbs, every one-word verb has a one-word present tense and a one-word past tense. Thus: I write and I wrote. These on… |
| Cloth vs. Clothes In the case of "cloth" and "clothes", we are not necessarily talking about a misspelling or about completely different senses of the words, but about the confusion often created between them. "Cloth"… |
| Favour vs. Favor Are “favour” and “favor” both correct, or is one word a misspelling of the other? These are two of the most confusing words in English, because they are both commonly used in the same contexts, with … |
| On, In, At the time In time When you do something in the last moment, you are just in time. That means you weren’t late for it, and saved yourself from some disaster (bad situation). · &nbs… |
