Commonly Confused Words - Page 5
“Proceed” vs. “Precede”: What’s the Difference?There are a lot of confusing words out there: homophones like affect and effect, different tenses of the same word like choose...May 12, 2023
How to Spell Out “40”: “Forty” or “Fourty”?How do you spell the number 40? This is some confusion about whether its forty or fourty, thanks in part to history, but in this...May 8, 2023
Learn the Difference: “Miss,” “Mrs.,” “Ms.,” and “Mx.”The feminine terms Miss, Mrs., and Ms. and the gender-neutral term Mx., along with their masculine counterpart Mr., are known as...May 8, 2023
How to Use “Was” vs. “Were” CorrectlyWas and were are both simple past tense forms of the verb to be, but they are not interchangeable. Was is the regular singular...May 8, 2023
“Whose” vs. “Who’s”: What’s the Difference?Whose is the possessive form of who, while who’s is a contraction for who is or who has—both are homophones but have different...May 1, 2023
When to Use “Like” vs. “Such As”You may worry about getting tripped up on the differences between like and such as, just like many people struggle to remember...April 17, 2023
“May” vs. “Might”: What’s the Difference?Think you’re great at grammar? You might be. In fact, you may be. Wait, aren’t those the same thing? Not quite. There are a few...March 29, 2023
“To” vs. “Too”: What’s the Difference?To is a preposition with several meanings, including “toward” and “until.” Too is an adverb that can mean “excessively” or...March 28, 2023
Can vs. Could: Learn the DifferencePeople often use can and could interchangeably, even though the words have slightly different meanings. Luckily, the rules about...March 24, 2023
When to Use “Choose” vs. “Chose”Compared to other commonly confused words, like affect and effect or lose and loose, the rules for using choose vs. chose are...March 16, 2023