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The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes

Sarah Townsend
4.9/5 (27054 ratings)
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Description:How many times do you question yourself when you write PRACTICE or PRACTISE, AFFECT or EFFECT, IMPLY or INFER?However confident you are as a writer – and however good your grasp of the English language – we all have blind spots.• BALD men aren’t always BOLD.• DISEASED may be bad, but DECEASED is a whole lot worse.• Dramatic CORDS require the fashion police.• And heaven forbid you ask someone to ‘BARE with me’ – unless you’re a fan of getting naked with strangers.Using the wrong word can completely change your message – and lead to embarrassing mistakes!The Little Book of Confusables is your guide to the tricksy spellings even smart people screw up.It’s designed to help you:• supercharge your vocabulary• write with confidence• avoid embarrassing mistakes• eliminate the fear of looking sillyThis is a book that’ll feed your love of language. A book you’ll want to keep close at all times. A book that’ll stop you tripping up and looking daft.WHAT’S INCLUDED?The Little Book of Confusables contains:• Simple, memorable and fun spelling tips and examples for almost 600 commonly confused words from LETS + LET’S, PRINCIPAL + PRINCIPLE and COMPLIMENT + COMPLEMENT to ACUTE + CHRONIC, LEND + BORROW and POISONOUS + VENOMOUS.• The difference between LESS + FEWER and NUMBER + AMOUNT• Handy hints to avoid mistakes like DOGGY DOG WORLD, WHITE AS A SHEEP and OUTER-BODY EXPERIENCE.• The difference between HOMOPHONES, HOMONYMS, HOMOGRAPHS, MALAPROPISMS and EGGCORNS… all in a gorgeous, flickable, fits-in-your-bag format.YOU’LL LEARN TO:• Remember the difference between hundreds of homophones and homonyms, such as COMPLIMENT + COMPLIMENT, DEPENDANT + DEPENDENT.• Avoid malapropisms and eggcorns, like DAMP SQUID, DOGGY DOG WORLD and TO ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES.• Master commonly confused words like LESS + FEWER and NUMBER + AMOUNT.If it’s lying in wait to trip you up, The Little Book of Confusables has got you covered.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes. To get started finding The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
335
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
2022
ISBN
1916371531

The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes

Sarah Townsend
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: How many times do you question yourself when you write PRACTICE or PRACTISE, AFFECT or EFFECT, IMPLY or INFER?However confident you are as a writer – and however good your grasp of the English language – we all have blind spots.• BALD men aren’t always BOLD.• DISEASED may be bad, but DECEASED is a whole lot worse.• Dramatic CORDS require the fashion police.• And heaven forbid you ask someone to ‘BARE with me’ – unless you’re a fan of getting naked with strangers.Using the wrong word can completely change your message – and lead to embarrassing mistakes!The Little Book of Confusables is your guide to the tricksy spellings even smart people screw up.It’s designed to help you:• supercharge your vocabulary• write with confidence• avoid embarrassing mistakes• eliminate the fear of looking sillyThis is a book that’ll feed your love of language. A book you’ll want to keep close at all times. A book that’ll stop you tripping up and looking daft.WHAT’S INCLUDED?The Little Book of Confusables contains:• Simple, memorable and fun spelling tips and examples for almost 600 commonly confused words from LETS + LET’S, PRINCIPAL + PRINCIPLE and COMPLIMENT + COMPLEMENT to ACUTE + CHRONIC, LEND + BORROW and POISONOUS + VENOMOUS.• The difference between LESS + FEWER and NUMBER + AMOUNT• Handy hints to avoid mistakes like DOGGY DOG WORLD, WHITE AS A SHEEP and OUTER-BODY EXPERIENCE.• The difference between HOMOPHONES, HOMONYMS, HOMOGRAPHS, MALAPROPISMS and EGGCORNS… all in a gorgeous, flickable, fits-in-your-bag format.YOU’LL LEARN TO:• Remember the difference between hundreds of homophones and homonyms, such as COMPLIMENT + COMPLIMENT, DEPENDANT + DEPENDENT.• Avoid malapropisms and eggcorns, like DAMP SQUID, DOGGY DOG WORLD and TO ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES.• Master commonly confused words like LESS + FEWER and NUMBER + AMOUNT.If it’s lying in wait to trip you up, The Little Book of Confusables has got you covered.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes. To get started finding The Little Book of Confusables: Simple Spelling and Usage Tips to Help Smart People Avoid Stupid Mistakes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
335
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
2022
ISBN
1916371531

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