Everyone knows I am a stickler for proper spelling and grammar. As bad as the English language is, once you've learned it, it's not that hard to get right. Here are some words that trip a lot of people up (even though the little red squiggly line under a word means you spelled it wrong):
vacuum
definitely
separate
desperate
license
accommodate
tomorrow
grateful
February
Wednesday
-ist instead of -est for superlatives
...and anything with i before e except after c...
Here are some that are often used in the wrong context, or also just spelled incorrectly (know the difference!):
your, you're
too, to, two
there, they're, their
affect/effect
accept/except
Feel free to add more in the comments.
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thank you for the spelling test....you should have added misuse of their/ there, to/too/two, where/were, etc....
ReplyDeleteI did their/they're/there and to/too/two in the 2nd paragraph - did you not see that? Where/were/we're/ware is also a good one...
ReplyDeleteapparently I overlooked it. Thanks for pointing it out. :)
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