Confusing Words

Confusing Words

These words sound similar but have different spellings and different meanings.

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    * accept/ except

    * access/ excess

    * adapt/ adopt

    * addition/ edition

    * advice/ advise

    * affect/ effect

    * are/ our/ hour

    * continual/ continuous



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    * device/ devise

    * disinterested/ uninterested

    * elicit/ illicit

    * ever/ every

    * farther/ further

    * formally/ formerly

    * half/ have

    * irregardless/ regardless



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    * loose/ lose/ loss

    * moral/ morale

    * personal/ personnel

    * precede/ proceed

    * quiet/ quite

    * respectfully/ respectively

    * sense/ since

    * than/ then



These words are grammatically similar but used differently.



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    * a/ an

    * about/ around

    * among/ between

    * as/ like

    * bad/ badly

    * beside/ besides



	List 2

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    * best/ better

    * bring/ take

    * brought/ brung

    * can/ may (could/ might)

    * choose/ chose

    * doesn't/ don't



	List 3

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    * fewer/ less

    * good/ well

    * got/ have

    * in/ into

    * its/ it's

    * lay/ lie



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    * learn/ teach

    * leave/ let

    * least/ less

    * many/ much

    * me/ myself

    * more/ most



	List 5

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    * raise/ rise

    * real/ really

    * saw/ seen

    * set/ sit

    * slow/ slowly

    * sure/ surely



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    * these/ those

    * till/ until

    * use/ used

    * who/ whom

    * who's/ whose

    * worse/ worst