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The Grammar Doctor, aka Carl Perrin, spent a half a century teaching English. Several times a week the Grammar Doctor will post some kind of grammar tip on this blog.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Words and phrases commonly confused or misused


  • INDEX


  • accept, except
  • adapt, adopt
  • advice, advise
  • affect, effectaffect, effect
  • allude, elude
  • alot
  • alright
  • among, between
  • amount, number
  • awhile, a while
  • bad, badly
  • compliment, complement
  • defuse, diffuse
  • delusion, illusion
  • desperate, disparate
  • discrete, discreet
  • disinterested, uninterested
  • eminent, immanent
  • energize, enervate
  • etymology, entomology
  • evoke, invoke
  • faze, phasefaze. phase
  • fewer, less
  • flair or flare
  • hardy, hearty
  • hopefully
  • horde, hoard
  • hyper or hypo?
  • imply, infer
  • ingenious, ingenuous
  • its or it's?
  • lie, lay
  • loath,loathe
  • loose, lose
  • like or as
  • martial or marital?
  • peace, piece
  • peak, pique, peek
  • persecute, prosecute
  • prescribe, proscribe
  • principal, principle
  • rein, reign
  • rite, right
  • sheer, shear
  • sneak, snuck
  • strait, straight
  • there, they're, their
  • supposed to
  • than, then
  • to or too
  • torturous, tortuous
  • unique
  • verbal or oral?
  • whose or who's?
  • wreck or wreak?

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