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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Accurate English and Correct Spelling

Grammar
I find Grammarly very helpful. It often adds a comma after a words such as however when I have used ti to start a sentence.  If you are writing a speech, or reading aloud to check the sense, the commas indicate pauses.

Spelling
I love looking at word lists and spelling errors. The funniest I've found today was deity wrongly spelled diety. I am diety but not a deity.


Common Spelling Mistakes
wrong - right (depeding on context)

compliment (praise and flattery) - for complement (part of the matching whole or set)
complimentary (free) - complementery (part of the set, matching, going with it, completing)
dairy - diary
stationary (cars) - for stationery (letters)


Useful Websites

https://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Spelling-Rules


NB Many websites use American English and some of the words they list as wrong spelling would be correct if you were writing British English for a British speaking audience.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and Photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

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