Your personal path to success in English
Your or you’re? Proceed or precede? Stationary or stationery? The English language contains many words which can confuse learners and native speakers alike. It’s common for a word to have several meanings or to be pronounced and spelled the same as others, that’s why it’s easy to make mistakes. This is the second instalment of the Commonly […]
The English language contains many words which can cause confusion for learners. It’s common for a word to have several meanings or to be pronounced and spelled the same as other words. For example, homophones are words that sound like other words but have a different spelling and a different meaning. Homonyms are pairs of words which […]
Then or than? Altogether or all together? Desert or dessert? Emigrate or immigrate? Job or work? English, just like any other language, has plenty of words that can confuse native and non-native speakers. There are words that are similar or the same in pronunciation. Others can be similar in spelling but mean different things. And […]
Assume or presume? Lose or loose? Lay or lie? The English language contains many words which can confuse learners and native speakers alike. It’s common for a word to have several meanings or to be pronounced and spelled the same as others, that’s why it’s easy to make mistakes. This is the third instalment of the Commonly Confused English Words […]