Confusing Words
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These words sound similar but have different spellings
and different meanings.
List 1
- accept/ except
- access/ excess
- adapt/ adopt
- addition/ edition
- advice/ advise
- affect/ effect
- are/ our/ hour
- continual/ continuous
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List 2
- device/ devise
- disinterested/ uninterested
- elicit/ illicit
- ever/ every
- farther/ further
- formally/ formerly
- half/ have
- irregardless/ regardless
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List 3
- loose/ lose/ loss
- moral/ morale
- personal/ personnel
- precede/ proceed
- quiet/ quite
- respectfully/ respectively
- sense/ since
- than/ then
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List 1
- a/ an
- about/ around
- among/ between
- as/ like
- bad/ badly
- beside/ besides
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List 2
- best/ better
- bring/ take
- brought/ brung
- can/ may (could/ might)
- choose/ chose
- doesn't/ don't
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List 3
- fewer/ less
- good/ well
- got/ have
- in/ into
- its/ it's
- lay/ lie
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List 4
- learn/ teach
- leave/ let
- least/ less
- many/ much
- me/ myself
- more/ most
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List 5
- raise/ rise
- real/ really
- saw/ seen
- set/ sit
- slow/ slowly
- sure/ surely
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List 6
- these/ those
- till/ until
- use/ used
- who/ whom
- who's/ whose
- worse/ worst
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