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Gray vs. Grey

Which is correct, Grey or Gray? What is the difference? These common questions, which many writer, and indeed readers ask, have never been fully answered. The quick answer is simple. There is no difference and both are correct. They are even pronou...

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added by jillvance
7 years ago

States of Adjective: -er or more, -est or most

How to Form the States of AdjectivesYou ask, therefore, how to tell when to use the ‑er and ‑est endings and when to use the helping words more and most? There’s no hard and fast rule, but some rules of thumb will help:Syll...

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added by edgood
7 years ago

Behavior vs. Behaviour

Behavior/Behaviour is one of many words that are spelled differently in American English and UK English. It is part of a pattern that extends across the majority of words with the same ending, such as color/colour, harbor/harbour, and so on. Which sp...

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added by rinat
6 years ago

Mold vs. Mould

British and American English have different rules when it comes to spelling the words. Americans omit the U that appears in some British words as a second vowel directly before a consonant. Therefore, mold ormould are a same word with same meaning an...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Maybe vs. May be

English language has a lot of compound words that refer to two completely different words being joined together to give a meaning that is usually different or same from the original meaning of the two words. These words include; goodbye, passport, po...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Biannual vs. Biennial

Biannual and biennial are treated as if they are interchangeable or they mean the same. Some people who know the difference but still get confuse about which is which. ...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Catalog vs. Catalogue

English is a language used in various countries and those countries have made modifications to the language according to their own requirements. Those modifications include changing spellings of numerous words including the pair we will be discussing...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Calfs vs. Calves

English language can be very confusing when it comes to certain words and their singular and plural forms. Sometimes to convert the word in plural only takes putting an s at the end of the word; book becomes books, phone becomes phones. However, that...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Chapter 10 - “Lead” vs. “Led”

“Yesterday, they lead us astray.”Here’s a quickie. Read on to learn that led is the correct word.Lead vs. Led: An OverviewMany writers think that the word lead is pronounce...

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added by edgood
7 years ago

Labour vs. Labor

English learners are sometimes confused when they see two words with very similar spellings and meanings. They read about them both and when the time comes to use that word in an essay, they are all confused. Which ones were the ri...

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added by angbeenc
7 years ago

Humour vs. Humor

Humor me! Or, Humour me? This amusing word has two alternative spellings which are most widely used in the English language and guess what? Both of them are correct. Humor without the u and humour with the u both have the same ...

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added by angbeenc
7 years ago

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: ...

 87,300 Views
added by angbeenc
7 years ago

Enquire vs. Inquire

She inquired about the library charges....

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added by angbeenc
7 years ago

Counsellor vs. Counselor

Spelling differences in American and British English are widespread and well-documented. From consonant doubling to -ise and ize suffixes, American writers an...

 85,831 Views
added by angbeenc
6 years ago

List of Homonyms

Note: Some references use the term Homonyms more broadly, to refer to homographs (words spelled the same as each other but pronounced differently) or homophones (words spelled differently but pronounced the same)....

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added by acronimous
5 years ago

Group Nouns - “majority do” or “majority does”?

Another problem of subject-verb disagreement arises when the subject of the sentence is a group noun, also called a collective noun, that is, a word describing a bunch of people or things, such as group, team, majority, and many others.The question i...

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added by edgood
7 years ago

Paediatric vs. Pediatric

This article answers all your questions about the spelling of these two words along with definitions, origins, usage and examples. Read along and you will get to know the difference between the two spellings. ...

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added by angbeenc
7 years ago

"A," "An," "The" - The Articles

At this point in our study of the eight parts of speech, it’s a good idea to discuss three little words we have a hard time classifying in the English language—the articles, a, an, and the.They don’t constitute a separate part of speech. But be...

 77,501 Views
added by edgood
7 years ago

Make Do vs. Make Due

When things don’t go the way we want them to, what do you do in such situations? You make do the best out of it. In medieval English language, the phrase make do had a substitute and that was the phrase of make due. However, in today’s current la...

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added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Present Tense of Verbs

Some authors write novels in the present tense, and it drives me bats. Whenever I browse in a bookstore, seeking the latest in top beach literature, I always sneak a few peeks to make certain the author does not use the present tense in the narrative...

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added by edgood
7 years ago

Lie vs. Lye

Words like lie are considered an irregular verb in the English language. Being a present principle ‘lie’, it refers to being untruthful. However, writing the same word with the alphabet ‘y’ makes it entirely different, giving off a different ...

 73,650 Views
added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Brake vs. Break

English language is filled with difficult and puzzling type of words. One of the type of words is homophones that are pronounced the same way but mean and spell differently. The words we are discussing today are one of the common pairs of homophones;...

 73,172 Views
added by angbeenc
6 years ago

In Route vs. En Route

The words we will be discussing today are taken from the French Language and when words are taken from other languages, the spellings are often mixed by the bilinguals, making it confusing for others. So, which is right? En-route or in-route?With the...

 72,847 Views
added by angbeenc
6 years ago

Modelling vs. Modeling

Modelling vs. ModelingAs a verb, "model" refers to the job of a professional model, which is defined as wearing certain clothes for various shows, magazines or p...

 72,133 Views
added by malza
6 years ago

Liar vs. Lier

Even though there is a slight spelling difference between “liar” and “lier”, their meanings are actually completely different. They might look similar and have the same origin, but “liar” and “lier” should never be confused in a messa...

 72,040 Views
added by malza
6 years ago

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