Words
Grammatical errors
- 'My mate and I' or 'Me and my mate'?
- 'Not so' not 'Not as'
- 'Our' or 'Are'?
- 10's 100's 1000's....etc (there should be no apostrophe)
- A fact cannot be wrong
- Adverse or Averse?
- Affect - Verb & Effect - Noun (Neither always apply)
- Ante - Before & Anti - Against
- Bear in mind
- Bought or Brought?
- Compared with (not compared to)
- Continue not 'Continue on'
- Could have, Would have, Should have not Could of, Would of, Should of
- Dear Sir/Madam...Yours Faithfully. Dear Friend...Yours Sincerely
- Different from (not different to)
- Farther - Distance & Further - Time (these definitions are not set in stone but are near enough)
- Fewer or less?
- Hanged & Hung
- ie & cei
- Instil (Implant/Introduce/Pour in) not Install
- It's (it is) & Its (possession)
- Marinade (noun) & Marinate (verb)
- Off & Of
- Pas'sed' (Verb) & Pas't' (Everything else!!)
- Rang (Past tense) & Rung (Pluperfect tense)
- Schedule - Shhhhhedule (English) & Skedule (American)
- Toe the line (not Tow)
- Who or Whom? Who: When you are referring to the subject of a clause. Whom: When you are referring to the object of a clause.
- Who's (Who is) & Whose (possession)
- Words end in ful not full (unless related to the word 'full' i.e 'overfull' & 'brimfull')
- Words ending in ceed - EXceed, PROceed & SUCceed
- You use a colon ( : ) after a word introducing a list, example or quotation
- You use the punctuation mark 'semi-colon' ( ; ) when connecting clauses in a sentence or list
- You're (You are) & Your (Possession)
