Articles tagged with: confused words
Lay vs Lie
The English verbs lay and lie are commonly confused by even native English speakers. I’m not lying when I say that you can now lay your fears of not knowing the difference …
Practice is a noun, it refers to an act itself; it’s an action rather than an idea.
Practise is a verb , it refers to ‘do something repeatedly to improve one skill’; to do an activity …
These two words are commonly confused – probably due in part to the fact that both words have more than one meaning. I will explain clearly the main difference and just briefly mention the other …
Its”, is the possessive adjective and possessive pronoun form of the personal pronoun “it”. “Its” means “belonging to it.” For example, The cat licked its paw.
On the other hand, “it’s” is a contraction of “it …
Some nouns have the same form in the singular and the plural and the word “Fish” is such an example. As such, fish is the usual plural word for fish whereby the plural form is …
The words Fewer and Less are commonly confused in English, or rather, less is used while fewer tends to fall by the wayside. You’ll be less confused and make fewer mistakes after reading through this …

