CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

There are a lot of words in English that look or sound alike but have very different meanings. It’s easy to get them confused and most electronic spellcheckers won’t be much help in this type of situation: they can tell you if a word has been spelled wrongly but they can’t generally flag up the misuse of a correctly spelled word. Here are some pairs of words that regularly cause people problems: adverse:  unfavourable, harmful averse:     strongly disliking; opposed appraise: to assess apprise:     to inform someone assent:     agreement, approval ascent:     the action of rising or climbing up  Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com

 

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS There are a lot of words in English that look or sound alike but have very different meanings. Its easy to get them confused and most electronic spellcheckers wont be much help in this type of situation: they can tell you if a word has been spelled wrongly but they cant generally flag up the misuse of a correctly spelled word. Here are some pairs of words that regularly cause people problems: adverse: unfavourable, harmful averse: strongly disliking; opposed appraise: to assess apprise: to inform someone assent: agreement, approval ascent: the action of rising or climbing up Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com