Common Errors in English Usage

**ACME** · 06-02-2011, 12:09 AM

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In this book , you can find the difference between similar pairs which can cause
troubles to most English language learners . You can find the difference between
all the following words . Remember >>They are arranged alphabetically

AM/PM * abject * about * absorbtion * abstruse/obtuse * accede/exceed * accent marks * access *
accessory * accept/except * accidently * acronyms and apostrophes * acrossed * actual fact/actually
* ad/add * adapt/adopt * administer/minister * adultry * advance/advanced * adverse/averse * advice/
advise * adviser/advisor * aesthetic/ascetic * affect/effect * affluence/effluence * agreeance/
agreement * ahold/hold * ain’t * all * all goes well/augurs well * alliterate/illiterate * alls * allude/
elude * allude/refer * allusion/illusion * almost * alot * already/all ready * alright * altar/alter *
alterior * alternate/alternative * altogether/ all together * alumnus/alumni * amature * ambiguous/
ambivalent * ambivalent/indifferent * American * amongst/among * amoral/immoral * amount/

backslash/slash * backward/backwards * barb wire, bob wire * bare/bear * basicly * bazaar/bizarre *
beaurocracy * beckon call * begs the question * behaviors * bemuse * beside/besides * better *
between * between you and I * beyond the pail * bias/biased * bible * biweekly/semiweekly * blatant
* bonafied * born out of * borrow/loan * both/each * boughten * bourgeois * bouyant * brand names
* brang, brung * breach/breech * breath/breathe * bring/take * build off of * bumrush * butt naked *
by/’bye/buy *
cache/cachet * call the question * callous/callused * calm, cool, and collective * Calvary/cavalry *
cannot/can not * canon/cannon * capital/capitol * caramel/carmel * carat/caret/carrot/karat * careen/
career * caring * Catch 22 * CD-ROM disk * ceasar * celibate/chaste * celtic * cement/concrete *
center around * cents * chai tea * chaise longue * chemicals * Chicano/Latino/Hispanic * chuck/
chunk * Church * cite/site/sight * classic/classical * cleanup/clean up * cliché/clichéd * click/clique *
close/clothes * close proximity * coarse/course * collaborate/corroborate * Colombia/Columbia *
colons/semicolons * commas * compare and contrast * compare to/compare with * complement/
compliment * complementary/complimentary * comprised of * concensus * concerted effort *
conflicted/conflicting feelings * confusionism * congradulations * continual/continuous * contrasts/
contrasts with * conversate * core/corps/corpse * could care less * could of/should of/would of *
council/counsel/consul * couple/couple of * credible/credulous * crescendo/climax * crevice/crevasse
* criteria/criterion * criticism * critique/criticize * crucifiction * currant/current * cut and dry * cut
and paste/copy and paste *
damped/dampened * dangling and misplaced modifiers * daring-do * data * decimate * deep-seeded
* definate * defuse/diffuse * degrade/denigrate/downgrade * deja vu * democrat/democratic *
depends * depreciate/deprecate * desert/dessert * device/devise * dialogue/discuss * dieties * differ/
vary * different than * dilemma/difficulty * dire straights * disburse/disperse * disc/disk * discreet/
discrete * discussed/disgust * disinterested/uninterested * disrespect * doctorial/doctoral * dolly/
handcart * dominate/dominant * done/did * double negatives * doubt that/doubt whether/doubt if *
doubtlessly/doubtless * dove/dived * downfall/drawback * drank/drunk * drastic/dramatic * drier/
dryer * dribble/drivel * drips and drabs * drive/disk * drug/dragged * dual/duel * duck tape * due to
the fact that * dyeing/dying *
e.g./i.e. * each * earth, moon * ecology/environment * economic/economical * ecstatic * ect. * -ed/-t
* -ed/-ing * ei/ie * either * either are/either is * eighteen hundreds/nineteenth century * electrocute *
elicit/illicit * ellipses * embaress * emergent/emergency * emigrate/immigrate * eminent/imminent/
immanent * empathy/sympathy * emphasize on * emulate/imitate * end result * enormity/

enormousness * enquire/inquire * ensure/insure * enthuse * envelop/envelope * envious/jealous *
enviroment * epic/epoch * epigram/epigraph/epitaph/epithet * epitomy * ethnic * every * every since
* everyday * everytime * evidence to * exact same * exalt/exult * excape/escape * exceptional/
exceptionable * exhileration * exponential * expresso * expresses that/says that *
factoid * fair/fare * farther/further * fastly * fatal/fateful * faze/phase * fearful/fearsome * febuary *
50’s * finalize * firey * first annual * fiscal/physical * fit the bill * flammable/inflammable * flaunt/
flout * flesh out/flush out * floppy disk/hard disk * flounder/founder * foot/feet * footnotes/endnotes
* for/fore/four * for all intensive purposes * for free * for one/for one thing * for sale/on sale *
forbidding/foreboding/formidable * forceful/forcible/forced * forego/forgo * foresee/forsee *
formally/formerly * forward * fortuitous/fortunate * foul/fowl * Frankenstein * frankly * French dip
with au jus * from . . . to * from the beginning of time * fulsome * -fuls/-ful *
gaff/gaffe * gamut/gauntlet * gaurd * gender * Ghandi * gibe/jibe/jive * gig/jig * gild/guild * god *
goes * gone/went * good/well * got/gotten * government * graduate * grammer * gratis/gratuitous *
greatful * grevious * grisly/grizzly * group (singular vs. plural) * ground zero * grow * gyp *
had ought * hairbrained * hangar/hanger * hanged/hung * hanging indents * hardly * hardly never *
hardy/hearty * HIV virus * he don’t * heading/bound * hear/here * hearing-impaired * heighth * help
the problem * hero/protagonist * heroin/heroine * highly looked upon/highly regarded * him, her/he,
she * hippie/hippy * hisself * historic/historical * an historic * hoi polloi * hold your peace/say your
piece * holocaust * homophobic * home page * hone in * hors d’oeuvres * hyphenation * hyphens &
dashes * hypocritical * hysterical/hilarious *
I me myself * -ic * idea/ideal * if/whether * if I was/if I were * ignorant * immaculate conception/
virgin birth * impact * impertinent/irrelevant * imply/infer * in regards to * in the fact that * incent,
incentivize * incredible * incidences/incidents/instances * indepth * Indian/Native American *
individual * infact * infamous/notorious * infinite * inflammable * influencial * input * install/instill
* instances/instants * intense/intensive * intensifiers * interment/internment * Internet/intranet *
interface * interpretate * into/in to * intrigue * ironically * irregardless * is, is * islams * Isreal *
issues * itch/scratch * it’s/its *
jerry-built/jury-rigged * Jew/Jewish * jewelry * John Henry * judgement *
kick-start * koala bear *
laissez-faire * large * late/former * later/latter * laundry mat * lay/lie * leach/leech * lead/led * leave/
let * legend/myth * lense * less/fewer * liable, libel * libary * light-year * lighted/lit * like * like/as if
* like for * likker * listserv * “lite” spelling * literally * little to none * lived * loath/loathe * loose/
lose * lustful/lusty *

mantle/mantel * marital/martial * marshall * marshmellow * mass * masseuse/masseur * mauve *
may/might * maybe/may be * medal/metal/meddle/mettle * media * Medieval Ages * mediocre *
medium/median * memorium * mic * might could * mischievious * misnomer * moral/morale *
more importantly * moreso * most always * motion/move * Mount Fujiyama * much differently *
muchly * music/singing * mute point * myriad of * myself *
nauseated/nauseous * neice * Nevada * next store * nieve * no sooner when * nonplussed * noone *
not all that * not hardly * notorious * nuclear * number of verb * numbers * nuptual *
of * of ___’s * offense * often * OK * old fashion * old-timer’s disease * on accident * once and a
while * one of the (singular) * one-dimensional * one in the same * one of the only * only * onto/on
to * oppress/repress * oral/verbal * orders of magnitude * ordinance/ordnance * Oregon * organic *
oriental * orientate * ostensively * over-exaggerated * oversee/overlook *
pair (number) * palate/palette/pallet * parallel * parallelled/paralleled * parallelism in a series *
paralyzation * parameters/perimeters * parentheses * parliment * passed/past * past time * pastorial *
passive voice * pawn off/palm off * peace/piece * peak/peek/pique * peasant/pheasant * penultimate/
next to last * peoples * per * percent decrease * pernickety/persnickety * perogative/prerogative *
perse * persecute/prosecute * personal/personnel * personality * perspective/prospective * peruse *
phenomena/phenomenon * Philippines/Filipinos * physical * picaresque/picturesque * picture * PIN
number * playwrite * plead innocent * please RSVP * plug-in * podium/lectern * pole/poll * point
being is that * point in time * pompom/pompon * populace/populous * pore/pour * possessed of, by,
with * practice/practise * practicle * pray/prey * precede/proceed * precedence/precedents *
precipitate/precipitous * predominant/predominate * predominately * preemptory * preferably *
prejudice/prejudiced * premier/premiere * premise/premises * prepone * prepositions (repeated) *
prepositions (wrong) * prescribe/proscribe * presently * pretty * primer * principal/principle *
prioritize * priority * proactive * probably * prodigy, progeny, protégé * prone * pronounciation *
prophecy/prophesy * prostate/prostrate * protray * proved/proven * purposely/purposefully *
Q/G * quantum leap * queue * quiet/quite * quote * quotation marks *
racism * rack/wrack * ran/run * rapport * ratio * rationale/rationalization * ravaging/ravishing/
ravenous * recreate * reactionary/reactive * real/really * realtor * reason because * rebelling/
revolting * rebut/refute * recent/resent * redundancies * reeking havoc * regard/regards * regretfully/
regrettably * reign/rein * religion * religion believes * reluctant/reticent * remuneration/renumeration
* reoccurring * repel/repulse * resister/resistor * retch/wretch * reticent/hesitant * return back *
revelant * revue/review * right of passage * Rio Grande River * risky/risqué * road to hoe * rob/steal
* role/roll * root/rout/route *
sacred/scared * sacreligious * safety deposit box * sail/sale/sell * salsa sauce * same difference *
sarcastic/ironic * satellite * say/tell * schizophrenic * sci-fi * sea change * seam/seem * second of all

* seen/saw * select/selected * self-worth * sense/since * sensual/sensuous * sentence fragments *
service/serve * set/sit * setup/set up * shall/will * sherbert * shrunk/shrank * Sierra Nevada
Mountains * silicon/silicone * simplistic * single quotes * slight of hand * sluff off * snuck * so/very
* so fun * social/societal * sojourn/journey * sometime/some time * somewhat of a * song/work or
composition * sooner * soup du jour of the day * sour grapes * spaded/spayed * stalactites/
stalagmites * stationary/stationery * stereo * stomp * straightjacket * straight-laced * stress on *
substance-free * substitute with * suffer with * suit/suite * summary/summery * supercede *
supposably, supposingly * suppose to * surfing the Internet *
take a different tact * taken back/taken aback * taught/taut * taunt/taut/tout * tenant/tenet * tender
hooks * tentative * than/then * that/which * that kind * theirselves * them * they’re/their/there *
therefor/therefore * there’s * these are them * these kind * these ones * they/their (singular) * think
on * though/thought/through * throne/thrown * thusly * time period * times smaller * to/too/two * to
home * today’s modern society * tolled/told * tongue and cheek * toward/towards * track home *
tradegy * troop/troupe * try and *
UFO * unconscience * underestimated * University of Indiana * unrest * upmost * use to * vague
reference * various * vary/very * veil of tears * verb tense * verbage * verses/versus * very unique *
vicious/viscous circle/cycle * video * vinegarette * viola/voila * vitae * volumptuous *
warrantee/warranty * wary/weary/leery * wash * way * ways * weather/wether/whether * weather
forecast calls for * Wensday * went/gone * were/where * wet your appetite * what * wheat *
whereabouts are * where it’s at * whether/whether or not * whilst/while * whim and a prayer *
whimp * whisky/whiskey * who/whom * who’s/whose * a whole ’nother * whose-ever * -wise *
woman/women * World Wide Web * worse comes to worse * wreckless * writting *
Xmas/Christmas *
ya’ll * ye * yea/yeah/yay * yoke/yolk * your/you * your/you’re * you’ve got another thing coming *

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Sirhasan

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