Practice English or Spanish with AI here “Similar TO” is the correct phrase in English. “To” is the dependent preposition that goes with “similar”. You look similar to your sister. Fanta is similar to orange juice. Similar To It is called a dependent preposition when we use “to” with “similar”. This means that the […]
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here “Lives” is the plural of the noun “life”. “Lifes” is incorrect in English. We only have one life. A cat has nine lives. Why is it Lives and not lifes? The word life has an irregular plural because it ends in “fe”. Many nouns in English that
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here Font and fount are easily confused with each other and can be used improperly. Font is most commonly used in American English, though you will find fount used as well, just with a different meaning. In British English, fount has the same meaning as it does in
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here Flier and flyer are super easy to mix up with each other because they are spelled so similarly. These words are considered homonyms because they are spelled similarly, but homonyms usually have different meanings. Flier and flyer more closely relate to variant spelling. These words are variant
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here Program is correct in American English and Programme is correct in British English. Programm is incorrect in English and should not be used. Program and programme are very similar words with just about the same meaning, but the correct use of them depends on where you are
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here “Drier” is used as a comparative adjective for dry and a “dryer” is a machine that you use to dry something. These words are homophones, which are two words that sound the same but have different meanings. They are very easily confused and sometimes still get interchanged
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here “Should of” is grammatically incorrect in English. The correct phrase is “should have”. Why do people say “should of” if it is incorrect? When people say “should have” in English, it is often contracted to “should’ve”. This “‘ve” sound is very similar to “of”. For this reason,
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here Prouder and more proud are both correct and acceptable to use. Prouder is more common as it is grammatically correct. Prouder and more proud are called comparative adjectives in English which means they compare two things. Prouder and more proud as comparative adjectives You can learn more
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here The correct phrase is “in the nick of time”. “Knick” is not a word in English. What does “in the nick of time” mean? “In the nick of time” is used to describe a situation where the appropriate action occurred just before an impending deadline. You just
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Practice English or Spanish with AI here “Not yet” means that something has not happened until that point but will possibly happen soon. Not yet is a common response to a question where the speaker expects something to have happened already. Are you going to have a baby? You have been married for 3
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