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| precedence, precedent, precedential - vocabulary noun Precedence: the fact or act of preceding, as in The first patent application receives precedence in Europe; priority in place, time, or rank because of superiority, as in The… |
| principal, principle - vocabulary noun Principal: the head of a school; also means “money” or “the balance on your mortgage.” As an adjective, principal means “main.” Principle: acts only as a noun. It means “r… |
| sanguine - vocabulary adjective Optimistic (and cheerfully so), hopeful, confident; reddish, ruddy. Note: Do not confuse sanguine with sanguinary. Sanguinary means “bloodthirsty” or “accompanied by … |
| solecism - vocabulary noun A nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as in There’s lots of cars on the road. A solecism can also refer to a social impropriety, especially in British English. “This [feeding fruitcake to … |
| transitive verb - vocabulary noun Note: The transitive verb is a good thing to know. Because many experienced writers usually know its ins and outs, I’ve included a brief discussion here. Here’s an excerpt… |
| Egg on Your Face This Grammar eBook explores the most prevalent grammatical mistakes people make. Each mistake is thoroughly discussed and illustrated with examples in the media and on the Internet. Here's… |
| Adviser vs. Advisor Are you a student who needs academic guidance about your future studies? You will be advised to visit the academic adviser. Or is it adadvisor? Does it confuse you which advisor to go when you need c… |
| Dual vs. Duel Dual and duel are a pair of homophones which means that both the words spell and sound almost similar but their meanings are entirely different from each other. Homophones are usually the cause of co… |
| Fuelling vs. Fueling The mystery of the spellings of certain words causes a lot of confusion for beginners of English language as they are unable to distinguish between the two. Consider the following sentences: Ian was … |
| Chord vs. Cord Can one letter change the entire message of a word? Yes, it can. An amazing example to illustrate this is the pair of words "chord" and "cord". Simply adding or not adding the letter "h" will result … |
| Emphasize vs. Emphasise Emphasis" is a usual noun, commonly chosen to express the particular meaning or importance of something. But what is the verb for this word? Is it "to emphasize" or "to emphasise"? You might think… |
| Hands on vs. Hands-on Hands-on" approach, "hands-on" experience, "hands-on" work - using this structure has become very common especially during the last years, in the English vocabulary. It is a very popular way of prese… |
| Indorsement vs. Endorsement You are probably used to spelling the word "endorsement" just like this, starting with "e". So it is natural that you are confused when you see it spelled "indorsement" on certain documents or in onl… |
| Inter vs. Intra Prefixes and suffixes are a great component of grammar that allows new words to be created, in order to express certain messages more accurately. But some of them are really similar and it is sometim… |
| Labelled vs. Labeled Labelled vs. Labeled Rules of past simple tense formation of regular verbs are quite simple and easy to remember, from adding the suffix "-ed" to applying some few exceptions in several cases. Eve… |
| Loath vs. Loathe As I’ve said elsewhere on this site, most of the confusions in language have nothing to do with grammar at all. Instead, the linguistic issues that writers and editors grapple with most commonly conc… |
| Offense vs. Offence Is there any notable difference between “offense” and “offence”? Some might think that it’s the same situation as “advise” and “advice”, that one is the verb and the other is the noun. Others already… |
| Clearer vs. More Clear Clear (adjective) When something is understandable or transparent, we say it is clear. Some examples would be – ‘The water is crystal clear’¸ The concept is ‘clear’. Clearer, clearly is the com… |
| Conditional Sentences If you are paving your path to learn better English or trying to improve your grammar you must have come across the conditional sentences. You might get an idea of what a conditional sentence is by j… |
| Auxiliary Verb Verbs are one of the first parts of speech a child learns about in high school. They are the main building blocks of a sentence and English grammar is incomplete about them. We all know that a verb i… |
| Insight vs. Incite vs. Invite Incite (verb) To incite someone is to arouse them to do something unlawful or wrong. It can be to stir up an unnecessary controversy or to encourage violence by saying something that may not be true.… |
| Contractions How’s your foot now?Haven’t you heard the news?We shouldn’t stay here.We all have come across words like these where some of the letters in the word are omitted making the word shorter. These types o… |
| Object Complement Complement is the word, phrase or clause that adds additional meaning to a word of a sentence. Just like the dictionary definition of the word complement i.e. to enhance something or give a better un… |
| Interjections Oh wow! You landed on this page! You must be looking for interjections.Among many other parts of speeches, interjection is also one of the commonly used English grammar term that we use in our everyd… |
| Dative Case The grammatical cases in English language are very important to know if you want to excel in English writing and speaking. There are various types of grammatical cases in English language which you m… |
