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Home Search  Glossary of Terms Common Errors FAQs Grammar Chat Download Grammar Checker Glossary of easily confused words that cause grammar errors A ^ top accept and except adoptive and adopted   (pop up) advice and advise adverse and averse   (pop up) affect and effect a lot, allot and alot allowed and aloud allude and elude allusion and illusion   (pop up) already and all ready alright or all right altar and alter altogether and all together   (pop up) amoral and immoral   (pop up) amount, quantity and number appraise and apprise B ^ top bare and bear being or been beside and besides breathe and breath C ^ top capital and capitol can and may canvas and canvass censor, censure and sensor   (pop up) cite, sight and site climactic and climatic   (pop up) coarse and course complement and compliment compose and comprise ('comprise of' and 'is comprised of') council and counsel D ^ top dependant and dependent decent, descent and dissent defuse and diffuse   (pop up) definite and definitive   (pop up) desert and dessert discreet and discrete   (pop up) disinterested and uninterested E ^ top economic and economical   (pop up) effect and affect e.g. and i.e. elicit and illicit elude and allude envelop and envelope enquiry and inquiry except and accept  F ^ top fewer or less fourth and forth G ^ top getaway and get away grisly and grizzly H ^ top historic and historical I ^ top i.e. and e.g. if or whether illicit and elicit illusion and allusion   (pop up) immoral and amoral   (pop up) imply and infer   (pop up) incidence and incidents   (pop up) incite and insight inquiry and enquiry instance and instants   (pop up) into, onto and up to  its and it's J ^ top K ^ top L ^ top lay and lie lead and led less and fewer licence and license loath and loathe loose and lose M ^ top may and can N ^ top no-one and no one notable and noticeable   (pop up) number, amount and quantity O ^ top onto, into and up to P ^ top past and passed plain and plane pore, pour and poor practice and practise precedence and precedent   (pop up) principal and principle precede and proceed prophecy and prophesy   (pop up) proscribe and prescribe   (pop up) provided and providing Q ^ top quantity, amount and number R ^ top raise, rise and raze role and roll S ^ top site, cite and sight stationary and stationery sensor, censor and censure   (pop up) story and storey T ^ top that, which and who their, there and they're then and than too or to U ^ top up to, into and onto uninterested and disinterested V ^ top vain, vein and vane W ^ top waist and waste weather, whether and wether whether or if which, who and that who or whom who's and whose X ^ top Y ^ top you're and your Z ^ top

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