Commonly confused words
Some word pairs are confused so often that the mistakes have become invisible to the people making them. This course groups them by why they are confused, and gives a test for each.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01Sound alikeHomophones.
- 02Look alikeSimilar spelling, different meaning.
- 03Meanings people get wrongNot spelling, sense.
- 04Who is doing whatPairs that reverse meaning.
- 05Grammar-driven pairsCountable and case.
- 06Words misused at workOffice vocabulary worth getting right.
- 07Phrases people mangleHeard rather than read.
- 08British and American differencesBoth correct, in their place.
- 09Checking yourselfTests that take seconds.
- 10Why it mattersProportionately.
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