Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Monday, February 15, 2021

11 commonly confused English words and how to avoid mixing them up

English is filled with words that look alike or sound alike (or both), but mean very different things — so it's easy to get confused and use the wrong word at the wrong moment...


Tuesday, September 29, 2020

14 most common words and phrases you're probably saying wrong

Many times, especially in business settings, people use words that they think they know — but don’t. Although they do this in an effort to sound intelligent and sophisticated, it backfires badly, because even one small slipup can cause an audience to focus on only that, not the speaker’s ideas. As writers of several grammar books, here are some of the most commonly confused and misused words and phrases in American English:....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/14-words-and-phrases-you-probably-been-saying-wrong-this-whole-time.html

Thursday, October 27, 2016

5 everyday sayings that you may be using incorrectly

English is a language rich with imagery, meaning and metaphor – and when we want to express ourselves we can draw upon a canon replete with beautifully turned phrases, drawing from the language’s Latin, French and Germanic roots, through Chaucer and Shakespeare right up to myriad modern wordsmiths – not to mention those apt aphorisms that English has appropriated from other languages.

So why is it we so regularly misuse some of these phrases? Here are five of the most common sayings that have somehow become lost in translation....
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/21/five-everyday-sayings-that-you-may-be-using-incorrectly_partner/


Saturday, May 21, 2016

Weird Al Performs 'Word Crimes'

Weird Al Yankovic performs his epic parody of "Blurred Lines," which you can see live on The Mandatory World Tour. http://weirdal.com/tour/ 
https://youtu.be/8eL3x5dHMLA







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