What I Am Getting At
The English language is super confusing and rather annoying. There are several words that sound alike and/or are spelled alike (a.k.a. homonyms, homophones, homographs), and it is easy to use them incorrectly or even misspell them. If you are aware of these words, you are more likely to recognize when you are trying to use them, and, hopefully, you can figure out which is the correct one to use.
The English language is super confusing and rather annoying. There are several words that sound alike and/or are spelled alike (a.k.a. homonyms, homophones, homographs), and it is easy to use them incorrectly or even misspell them. If you are aware of these words, you are more likely to recognize when you are trying to use them, and, hopefully, you can figure out which is the correct one to use.
For Your Information
Instead of trying to recreate my own ways to introduce these words to you (wich would probably fail miserably anyway!), I have found other blogs and websites that have already found decent and interesting ways to share this same topic and have decided to compile them for you. I hope you are able to put them to some use (:
Instead of trying to recreate my own ways to introduce these words to you (wich would probably fail miserably anyway!), I have found other blogs and websites that have already found decent and interesting ways to share this same topic and have decided to compile them for you. I hope you are able to put them to some use (:
Grammar-Monster.com
- Easily Confused Words
- This page offers a rather large list of words that are confused with each other. There is a link for each of the word pairs that gives definitions and examples of how to use the words correctly.
- Easily confused words grammar test
- In case you want to test your knowledge in this area, here is a small quiz (: This is the link to the main confused words test; there are also more focused tests that relate to the specific word pairs.
- These posts give the basic definition of usage and then show how to put them into a sentence and the context for each. The three links I have included are just a few of the posts that Grammar Girl has made; I definitely encourage you to look for more (:
- If you are interested, Grammar Girl has written a book titled Grammar Girl's 101 Misused Words You Will Never Confuse Again; it is available on both Amazon and at Barnes & Noble (:
- List of Confusing Words and Homonyms
- Many (if not all) of the confused word pairs are listed here--you can find them alphabetically. In each section you can see the basic definition of the words, examples and a small pop quiz on the use of the words...these are a great resource for review!
ELearnEnglishLanguage.com
- This site's “Mistakes + Difficulties” page lists quite a few of the confused words and phrases. I am pretty impressed with the fact that when a word has multiple definitions or ways to be used, both definitions are given and then demonstrated. This gets rid of quite a bit of confusion.
Other
- Dr. Grammar is a page associated with the University of Northern Iowa and is a decent resource for grammar questions. On the Frequently Asked Questions page, several of these confused words are their own questions (:
- ToTooTwo.com is a super simple page that shows the differences between “to”, “too” and “two” (if you had not already guessed that!).
There are so many resources available when you find that you have messed up a word! (I was amazed in all honesty--I am used to searching an actual physical dictionary for the correct word!) Hopefully my very small list is helpful (:
Let me know what you think,
Let me know what you think,
Amanda
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