Pour vs. Pour Take a look at the above two sentences. One of them is not correct. Can you identify which one? Pore... |
practical - correct spelling practical - adjective
Example: Let’s take a practical approach and ignore all those theories.... |
practically - correct spelling practically - adverb
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prairie - correct spelling prairie - noun
Example: The cowboy felt at home on the prairie.... |
pray, prey To pray means "to meditate or communicate with God."As a verb, prey means “to hunt.” As a noun, prey... |
precarious - vocabulary adjective
Dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control; lacking in stability or security; subject to change; based on unproved premises; perilous. A politician never forgets the precarious... |
precede - correct spelling precede - verb
Not preceed.Example: The best man will precede the groom in the procession.... |
precedence - correct spelling precedence - noun
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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 company relied on its prec... |
precedent, precedence The meaning of the word precedent in law—a judicial decision that sets a rule—is very close to the common usage of the word: an “example” or “custom resulting from long practice.” A lawyer might find several prec... |
preceding - correct spelling preceding - adjective and verb (present participle of the verb precede) Not preceeding.Example: He looked at the footnote ... |
precise - correct spelling precise - adjective
Example: The architect studied the precise measurements of the room.... |
preclude - vocabulary verb
To prevent the occurrence or existence of something; to exclude from something. Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most i... |
precocious - vocabulary adjective
Unusually mature or advanced in development, especially in mental aptitude; usually in reference to children. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of chil... |
precursor - vocabulary noun
A person or thing that precedes; a person, animal, or thing indicating the approach of something or someone, a harbinger. In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a ce... |
Predicate Do you know what a predicate is? It sounds somehow familiar but only a few of us really understand the meani... |
predicate Every sentence or clause has a subject and a predicate. The subject is a noun, pronoun, or group of words acting as a noun, and the words ... |
predicate adjective A predicate adjective is an adjective appearing in the predicate of a sentence or clause and modifying the grammatical subject of t... |
predicate nominative A predicate nominative is also called a subject complement or a predicate noun. The predicate nominative typically follows the verb to be
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predicate noun See predicate nominative
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predictable - correct spelling predictable - adjective
Example: New polls show the predictable winners in the election.... |
predilection - vocabulary noun
A tendency or inclination to think favorably about something, a preference, as in a predilection for Mozart. The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] ... |
predominant, predominate As an adjective, predominant describes something with the greatest influence or authority.As a verb, predominat... |
prefer - correct spelling prefer - verb
Example: We can go to the opera, if you prefer.... |
