What are your words? The ones you always have to look up and check spelling or meanings? Looking at a book with “the most common mistakes in English usage” I found a couple of my own. <\/p>\n
Accept and except. <\/p>\n
These even sound about the same. Do you know which is which? When do you accept and when do you except? <\/p>\n
Lay and lie. <\/p>\n
For me it’s really the word lay. A chicken lays eggs. Do people lay down or lie down? <\/p>\n
Then, there are common mistakes I see myself. Not my own mistakes but those of others. <\/p>\n
They’re and there. <\/p>\n
They’re going to the park on the way there. <\/p>\n
Your and you’re. <\/p>\n
You’re going too fast your speed is too high. <\/p>\n
Where and were. <\/p>\n
Where were you? <\/p>\n
A lot and alot. <\/p>\n
Alot is not a word. It should always be a lot. <\/p>\n
Do you know which is the principle and which is the Principal? <\/p>\n
When is it better to further your efforts to go farther? <\/p>\n
No doubt those aren’t glowing examples of grammar but sometimes knowing how words fit in helps you remember which one you need at the time. <\/p>\n
Other confused words are anything with double “0’s”. Choose chose, too to, loose lose and so on. <\/p>\n
But my personal worst mistake is its and it’s. I still can not keep them straight. Sometimes I get lazy and just type ‘its’ regardless of correctness. <\/p>\n
I can stick up for my laziness by saying that’s how language is built, it evolves from laziness and a need for better understanding in communication. But, I know in the case of ‘its’ I’m just being lazy when I should, or at least could, be checking my handy dandy dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are your words? The ones you always have to look up and check spelling or meanings? Looking at a book with “the most common mistakes in English usage” I found a couple of my own. Accept and except. These even sound about the same. Do you know which is which? When do you accept […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1244,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}