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• -able and -ible
• -emia or -aemia
• -Esque Suffix - Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• -gate Suffix
• -Holic, -Oholic, and -Aholic - Suffix, Meaning & Examples
• -phile and -phobe Suffix
• -Wise Suffix
• 'L', L, el (Chicago trains)
• 'Tis the season
• "Be Patient" or "Have Patience" - Meaning & Difference
• "Google" vs. "google" - Is It Capitalized?
• "Used To" Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• 10 Best Books for Proofreaders and Editors
• 10 Best Dissertation Editing Services
• 10 Tips to Help You With Punctuation
• 10 Tips to Improve Your Readability Score
• 11 Best Grammarly Alternatives - Viable Free and Paid Options
• 11 Tips for Editing Your Own Writing - Checklist Included
• 12 Easy Tips to Proofread Your Emails Before Hitting Send
• 12 Types of Editors and Editing
• 13 Proofreading and Editing Marks and Symbols - With Examples
• 17 Essential Proofreading Skills and How to Improve Them
• 17 Reasons Why Proofreading is Important
• 18 Best Book Editing Services
• 20+ Best Online Proofreading Jobs for Beginners
• 21 Common Punctuation Mistakes (With Worksheet)
• 25 Hilarious Proofreading and Editing Memes
• 25 Online Editing Jobs For Freelancers
• 26 Best Book Editors
• 29 Tips to Proofread Your Resume Like a Pro
• 30 Common Grammar Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
• 30 Dog Idioms and Phrases - Origins and Meanings
• 47 Greetings and Salutations in French
• 7 Tips on How to Punctuate a Poem
• 7 Types of Commas - Usage & Examples
• 8 Best Editing Services
• A Big Ask - Idiom & Meaning
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A Blessing in Disguise - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• A cat may look at a king
• A chip off the old block
• A day late and a dollar short
• A Dime a Dozen - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• A Far Cry From - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• A fate worse than death
• A Feather in Your Cap - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• A fish out of water
• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed - Origin & Meaning
• A hold vs ahold
• A la (à la)
• À La Mode - Origin & Meaning in English
• A leg up
• A leopard can't change its spots
• A Lick and a Promise - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• A Light at the End of the Tunnel - Meaning, Origin & Examples
• A little and A Few Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• A Little vs. A Few - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• A lot on one's plate and a full plate
• A lot vs allot
• A Lot vs. Alot - Difference & Meaning
• A man is known by the company he keeps
• A Man of Letters - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• A means to an end
• A method in one's madness
• A miss is as good as a mile
• A New Lease on Life - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• A Piece of Work - Meaning & Examples
• A Pound of Flesh - Origin & Meaning
• A priori
• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• A shot across the bow
• A Shot in the Arm - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• A Shot in the Dark - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• A sight for sore eyes
• A Slap In The Face - Meaning & Examples
• A slap on the wrist
• A stitch in time saves nine
• A stone's throw
• A taste of one's own medicine and a dose of one's own medicine
• A Visit From The Stork - Idiom & Meaning
• A watched pot never boils
• A Whole Nother - Usage & Meaning
• A.D., B.C., B.C.E., C.E.
• A.M. or P.M. - How to Write Them (+ Examples)
• Abandon vs. abandonment
• Abbreviation Punctuation
• Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms
• Abdicate, abnegate, abrogate
• Abecedarius
• Abetter vs. abettor
• Abhorrent vs aberrant
• Abided vs. abode
• Ability vs. capability vs. capacity
• Abject or object
• Abject vs object
• Abjure vs. adjure
• Abolishment vs. abolition
• Aborted vs. abortive
• About-face
• Above Board, Above-Board or Aboveboard
• Above one's pay grade
• Abracadabra - Usage, Origin & Meaning
• Abridgment and abridgement
• Absolve vs resolve
• Abstracter vs. abstractor
• Abstruse vs. obtuse
• Abuse vs abuse
• Acapella or A Cappella - Definition & Correct Spelling
• Accell
• Accent vs accentuate
• Accept vs Except
• Acceptance vs. acceptation
• Access
• Access vs excess
• Accessorize or Accessorise - Meaning & Spelling
• Accessory vs accessary
• Accidental vs incidental
• Accidental vs occidental
• Acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize
• Acclimation vs acclamation
• Accord vs. accordance
• According to Hoyle and according to Cocker
• Accost
• Accoutrement
• Ace in the hole
• Acephalous
• Achilles' heel
• Acid test vs litmus test
• Acknowledgement Vs Acknowledgment
• Acme vs acne
• Acronym vs anacronym
• Across the board
• Action Speak Louder Than Words - Meaning & Examples
• Actualise vs actualize
• Ad hoc
• Ad Hominem Fallacy Examples and Definition
• Ad Nauseam - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Ad vs. add
• Ad-lib and ad lib
• Adam's off ox
• Adamance
• Adapt vs adopt
• Adaptable or adaptive
• Adapter vs. adaptor
• Adaption vs. Adaptation - What's the Difference?
• Add fuel to the fire
• Add insult to injury
• Addenda vs. Addendums
• Addicting vs. addictive
• Addition vs. edition
• Addlepated, addlebrained and addleheaded
• Adduce vs educe
• Adjective Definition, Usage & List of Examples
• Adjectives and Adverbs - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• Adjectives and Adverbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Adjudicate
• Administrate
• Admittance vs. Admission - Difference & Definition
• Adolescence vs adolescents
• Adopted vs. adoptive
• Ads, adds or adze
• Advance vs. advanced
• Advent
• Adventurous vs adventuresome
• Adverbs - Definition & Examples (With Worksheet)
• Adverbs of Frequency - Rules, List of Examples & Worksheet
• Adverse vs. Averse - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Advert vs. avert
• Advertise vs advertize
• Advice vs. Advise - Meaning, Spelling & Examples
• Adviser Vs Advisor - Which Is Correct?
• Aegis
• Aeon vs. eon
• Aerie vs airy
• Aerobic vs anaerobic
• Aeroplane vs. airplane
• Aesthetic vs. ascetic
• Aether vs. ether
• Aetiology or etiology
• Affect vs Effect
• Affective vs. effective
• Affinity vs infinity
• Afflict vs. inflict
• Affluent vs. effluent
• Affluenza
• African-American vs. black
• Afterward vs. afterwards
• Afterward vs. afterword
• Agape vs agape
• Ageing vs. Aging - Which is Correct?
• Agent and recipient nouns
• Aggrandize
• Aggravate - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Aggravate vs aggregate
• Aggravate vs mitigate
• Aggression vs. aggressiveness
• Agitprop
• Agnostic vs. Atheist - What's the Difference?
• Agog or agape
• Agree
• Agreement Vs Agreeance - Which Is Correct?
• Ahead of the curve vs ahead of the curb
• Ahold
• Aid vs. Aide - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Ail vs ale
• Ailment vs aliment
• Ain't
• Air quotes
• Air vs err
• Air vs heir
• Akimbo
• Alas or But Alas - Usage, Punctuation & Meaning
• Albatross Around My Neck - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Albeit
• Alcoholism vs dipsomania
• Algorithm vs logarithm
• Alight
• All American or all-American
• All bark and no bite
• All but
• All but vs anything but vs everything but
• All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go - Origin & Meaning
• All get-out
• All good things must come to an end
• All Hands on Deck - Origin & Meaning
• All in all
• All of the Sudden vs All of a Sudden - Which is Correct?
• All Ready vs. Already - Meaning, Definition & Spelling
• All right vs. alright
• All Roads Lead to Rome - Origin & Meaning
• All sizzle and no steak
• All systems go
• All that
• All that glitters is not gold
• All together vs. altogether
• All-around, all-round
• All's fair in love and war
• All's Well That Ends Well - Meaning & Expansion of Idea
• Allegation vs accusation
• Alleviate vs elevate
• Alley vs ally
• Alligator vs. crocodile
• Alliterate, literate or illiterate
• Alliteration vs assonance
• Allude vs. elude
• Allusion vs. elusion vs. illusion
• Allusive, elusive or illusive
• Alma Mater - Meaning, Spelling & Capitalization
• Aloud vs allowed
• Alphabetic vs. alphabetical
• Also-ran
• Altar vs. alter
• Alter ego
• Alternate vs alternate
• Alternate vs. alternative
• Alternately vs alternatively
• Although vs. though
• Alum vs alum
• Aluminium vs. aluminum
• Alumna, Alumnae, Alumni, Alumnus - What's the Difference?
• Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
• Always vs all ways
• Amalgam vs. amalgamation
• Amative or amatory
• Amazeballs
• AMBER alert
• Amber vs ember
• Ambiance vs. ambience
• Ambiguous vs ambivalent
• Ambulance chaser
• Ameliorate vs alleviate
• Amend vs. emend
• Amends vs amends
• America
• American
• American Indian vs Native American
• Amiable vs amicable
• Amiable vs. amicable
• Amok vs. amuck
• Among vs. Amongst - Difference, Usage & Examples
• Among vs. Between - When to Use Each
• Amoral vs. Immoral - What's the Difference?
• Amount vs. number
• Amphitheater vs amphitheatre
• Amuse vs. bemuse
• An arm and a leg
• An Englishman's home is his castle.
• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
• An historic
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Anachronism
• Analog vs. analogue
• Analogue vs. analogy
• Analogy vs allegory
• Analyse vs. Analyze - Difference & Meaning
• Analyses vs analyzes
• Anamorphic
• Anapest
• Anathema
• Ancillary vs auxiliary
• And yet
• Anecdote vs antidote
• Anemic or anaemic
• Anesthesia vs anaesthesia
• Angel vs. Angle - How to Remember the Difference
• Angle Bracket Symbol
• Animal Adjectives - Complete List
• Animal collective nouns
• Animate vs adamant
• Annal vs annual
• Annex vs. annexe
• Annual, perennial or biennial
• Anodyne vs analgesic
• Anomalous vs anonymous
• Another string in your bow
• Another think coming
• Ante- vs anti-
• Antediluvian
• Antennae vs. antennas
• Antichrist
• Antifa
• Antimacassar
• Antonyms
• Anyday vs any day
• Anymore or any more
• Anyone vs. Any One - Usage & Difference
• Anyplace or Any Place - Which is Correct?
• Anytime vs. Any Time - Difference, Usage & Examples
• Anyway vs. anyways
• APA Title Page (7th Edition) - Examples & Templates
• Apart vs. A Part - Usage, Difference & Definition
• Apartment vs. Flat - What's the Difference?
• Apiary vs aviary
• Apologetics
• Apologise vs. apologize
• Apoplectic vs apocalyptic
• Apostle
• Apostrophe (poetry)
• Apostrophe After S - Rules and Examples
• Apostrophe Rules and Punctuation Guide With Examples
• Apostrophes Before S - Rules and Examples
• Apostrophes With Names Ending in S
• Apotheosis
• Appal vs. appall
• Appeal to Authority Fallacy - Definition & Examples
• Appellation vs appellative
• Append vs upend
• Appetizer or hors d'oeuvre
• Appetizer vs appetiser
• Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree - Origin & Meaning
• Apple-pie order
• Apple-polish
• Apposite vs opposite
• Appositive Phrases and How to Use Them in a Sentence
• Appraise vs. apprise
• Apprehend vs apprehensive
• Apprehend vs comprehend
• Apprehensive vs reprehensive
• Approbation vs approval
• Approbation vs opprobrium
• Appropriate vs appropriate
• Appropriate vs. expropriate
• April Fool's or April Fools'
• Apropos
• Arbor or arbour
• Arc vs arch
• Arc vs ark
• Arcane and obsolete
• Archaeology vs. archeology
• Arctic, Antarctic
• Ardor or ardour
• Are Seasons Capitalized? Examples in a Sentence
• Argot vs ergot
• Argumentative vs. Argumentive - What's the Difference?
• Arise or rise
• Armor vs. armour
• Around the clock, round the clock
• Around vs. round
• Arouse vs. rouse
• Arrant vs. errant
• Arse vs. Ass - What's the Difference?
• Artefact vs. artifact
• Artesian vs artisan
• Articulate vs articulate
• As crook as Rookwood
• As Far As - Meaning & Examples
• As per
• As pleased as Punch
• As right as rain
• As the Crow Flies - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• As Thick As Thieves - Meaning & Origin
• As vs. Like - Difference & Examples
• As yet, as of yet
• ASAP
• Ascared - Meaning and Usage
• Ascent, ascendance, ascendancy, etc.
• Ascribe vs attribute
• Ascribe vs subscribe
• Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
• Askew vs eschew
• Asking For a Friend - Origin & Meaning
• Asleep at the switch and asleep at the wheel
• Aspiration vs inspiration
• Aspire vs inspire
• Assail vs. assault
• Assignation or assignment
• Assure, ensure, insure
• Asterisk Symbol (*) - Usage and Examples
• Astrology vs astronomy
• Asylum
• At a loose end
• At all costs and at any cost
• At loggerheads
• At sixes and seven
• At the Drop of a Hat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• At the end of one’s rope or at the end of one’s tether
• At the End of the Day - Usage & Meaning
• At Wits End - Meaning, Origin and Correct Spelling
• Ate vs. Eight - Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
• Atlas
• Attache
• Attain vs. obtain
• Attic vs addict
• Attribute vs attribute
• Au contraire
• Au Courant - Meaning in English & Examples
• Au fait
• Au pair
• Auger vs. augur
• Aught or Aughts - Usage & Meaning
• August
• August vs august
• Auld lang syne
• Aunt vs. Ant - What's the Difference?
• Aural vs. oral
• Aureole vs oriole
• Auspicious vs suspicious
• Authorise vs. authorize
• Authoritative vs. authoritive
• Autobiography vs biography
• Autocorrect
• Autocrit vs ProWritingAid
• Autotune or Auto-Tune
• Autumn vs. fall
• Auxiliary Verbs - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Avail
• Avant-Garde - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Avenge vs. Revenge vs. Vengeance - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Avocation vs. vocation
• Aw or awe
• Award vs reward
• Away vs a way
• Awed vs odd
• Awfully
• Awhile vs. A While - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• AWOL
• Awry vs wry
• Ax vs. axe
• Axel vs. axle
• Axes vs axes
• Axiom, adage or epigram
• Axis vs axes
• Aye vs eye
• B Line or Beeline - Origin & Meaning
• Babe in the woods
• Bachelor’s or bachelors degree and master’s or masters degree
• Back in the day
• Back in the Saddle - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Back seat vs. backseat
• Back the wrong horse and bet on the wrong horse
• Back to square one
• Back to the drawing board
• Back up vs. backup
• Backhanded compliment and left-handed compliment
• Backseat driver
• Backstab - Definition & Examples
• Backward vs backwards
• Backwater or backwaters
• Backyard, back yard, back-yard
• Bad apple
• Bad penny
• Bad rap vs. bad wrap
• Bad vs badly
• Bae vs bay
• Bail vs. Bale - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• Bailiwick
• Bailout, bail out, and bail-out
• Bain-marie vs double boiler
• Bait vs. bate
• Baker's dozen
• Bald, balled or bawled
• Balderdash - Origin, Meaning & Definition
• Ball vs. Bawl and Balling vs. Bawling - Difference & Meaning
• Balmy vs. barmy
• Baloney vs. bologna
• Bamboozle
• Ban vs. bar
• Band (together) vs. bandy (about)
• Band vs banned
• Bane
• Bank on it and take it to the bank
• Bankster
• Baptise vs. baptize
• Baptism by Fire or Baptism of Fire - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah
• Barbecue vs. barbeque
• Barbed wire
• Bard
• Bard vs barred
• Bare bones
• Bare vs. Bear - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Bark is worse than one’s bite
• Bark vs barque
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Barn burner
• Barnstorm
• Baron vs barren
• Bartleby Write vs Grammarly
• Basal, basil, or Basel
• Base or Bass - Pronunciation & Definition
• Based vs baste
• Basis (on a daily basis, on a regular basis, etc.)
• Basis vs bases
• Basket case
• Bass vs bass
• Bastion
• Bated Breath or Baited Breath - Meaning and Origin
• Bath or Bathe - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• Bathos vs pathos
• Baton vs batten
• Batten Down the Hatches - Meaning and Origin
• Batting cleanup
• Battle royal
• Bawdy vs body
• Bawl out
• Bazaar vs. bizarre
• Be my guest
• Beach vs beech
• Beachcomber
• Bean Counter - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Bear market, bull market, bearish, bullish
• Beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse
• Beat Around the Bush - Origin & Meaning
• Beat Me to the Punch - Origin & Meaning
• Beat or beaten
• Beat swords into plowshares and beat swords into ploughshares
• Beat vs beet
• Beau and Belle - Difference & Meaning
• Beau vs bow
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Bechdel test and Bechdel-Wallace test
• Beck and call vs beckon call
• Beckon call
• Bed of roses
• Been around the block
• Been there, done that
• Beer vs bier
• Beg off
• Began vs. Begun - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Beggar Belief - Meaning and Origin
• Beggars can’t be choosers
• Begging the Question Fallacy - Meaning and Examples
• Begrudge
• Behalf
• Behavior vs. behaviour
• Behest vs bequest
• Behind The Eight Ball - Meaning And Origin
• Behold and beholden
• Behoove
• Belay vs belie
• Belie
• Bell the Cat (or To Bell the Cat) - Idiom & Meaning
• Bell vs belle
• Bells and Whistles - Origin & Meaning
• Bellwether
• Bellyache
• Below the belt and hit below the belt
• Benchmark
• Benedict Arnold
• Benefit of the Doubt - Meaning, Origin & Examples
• Benefiting vs. Benefitting
• Bent or bended
• Bereaved vs. bereft
• Berry vs bury
• Berserk
• Berth vs birth
• Beside or besides
• Besotted
• Bespeak vs bespoke
• Bespeckled or bespectacled
• Best Academic Editing and Proofreading Services
• Best Amazon Proofreading and Editing Jobs
• Best Book Editing Software
• Best English Editing Services
• Best Essay and Paper Checker - Free and Paid Options
• Best Essay Writing Software
• Best Free and Paid Plagiarism Checkers
• Best Grammar Checker For Academic Papers
• Best Grammar Checkers for 2023 - Free and Paid
• Best Laid Plans - Origin & Meaning
• Best Legal Proofreading Services
• Best Manuscript Editing Services
• Best Markdown Editor for Windows and Mac
• Best Online Proofreading & Editing Courses
• Best Online Spellchecker - Free and Paid Options
• Best Passive Voice Checkers and Correctors For 2022
• Best Proofreading And Editing Software
• Best Proofreading Services in USA, Canada and UK
• Best Readability Checker
• Best Research Paper Editing Services
• Best Writing Apps For Android in 2022
• Best Writing Apps For Mac and Windows
• Best Writing Assistant Programs For Writers - Free and Paid
• Bête noire
• Better Late Than Never - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Better Safe Than Sorry - Proverb, Meaning & Examples
• Better vs bettor
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Origin & Meaning
• Betwixt - Usage & Meaning
• Beyond the pale
• Bezel vs embezzle
• Biannual vs. biennial
• Biannual, biennial and semiannual
• Biceps and triceps
• Bid, bade, bidden
• Big fish in a small pond
• Big kahuna
• Big league and bush league
• Big shot
• Big-ups
• Bigwig
• Bill and coo
• Bill of goods
• Billed vs build
• Bimonthly and semimonthly
• Binded vs. bound
• Binge-Watch or Binge-Watching - Meaning & Examples
• Bingeing or binging
• Bingo
• Birds of a Feather Flock Together - Proverb, Origin & Meaning
• Bisect vs dissect
• Bit vs. bitten
• Bite off more than one can chew
• Bite one's tongue
• Bite or Bight - What's the Difference?
• Bite the Bullet - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Bite-size or bite-sized
• Bite, byte or bight
• Bitter pill to swallow and hard pill to swallow
• Bivouac
• Biweekly vs semiweekly
• Black market
• Black out vs blackout
• Black Sheep Idiom - Meaning & Origin
• Blackball
• Blackmail vs extortion
• Blah blah blah
• Blandish vs brandish
• Blatant vs. flagrant
• Blather vs blabber
• Blather vs. blither
• Blaze a trail
• Blench vs blanch
• Blessed vs. Blest - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Blew, blown, or blowed
• Blind Side vs. Blindside - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Bling
• Blitzkrieg
• Bloc vs. block
• Blockbuster - Meaning & Examples
• Blond or Blonde - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• Blood brother
• Blood Is Thicker Than Water - Origin & Meaning
• Bloviate
• Blow a fuse and blow a gasket
• Blow hot and cold
• Blow off steam and let off steam
• Blow someone's cover
• Blow the whistle and whistle-blower
• Blow your own trumpet and toot your own horn
• Blow-by-blow account
• Blowhard and windbag
• Blowing up one's phone
• Blowout vs. blow out
• Blowup vs. blow up
• Blue blood
• Bluetooth
• Board vs bored
• Bob's Your Uncle Meaning and Origin
• Bobble vs bauble
• Bobbsey twins
• Bode vs bowed
• Bodega
• Body politic
• Bogeyman
• Boggle the mind and mind-boggling
• Bohemian
• Bokeh
• Bold as brass
• Bold-Faced Lie or Bald-Faced Lie - Meaning & Origin
• Bolder vs boulder
• Boldface text
• Bollocks vs bollocking
• Bombogenesis
• Bon vivant
• Bona fide, bona fides
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick
• Bone vs debone
• Bonhomie
• Booby hatch
• Book Proofreading Jobs and How to Land Them
• Boondocks vs boonies
• Boondoggle
• Boot camp
• Boots on the ground
• Booze vs boos
• Border vs boarder
• Bore, boor, boar
• Born with a Silver Spoon - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Borne vs. born
• Borough, burro, burrow
• Bot vs bought
• Botanic vs. botanical
• Bottom Line - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Bough or bow
• Bought the farm and gone for a Burton
• Boughten
• Bound vs. bounded
• Bounteous vs bountiful
• Bourgeois, bourgeoisie
• Bow vs bow
• Bowdlerize
• Bowl over
• Bowl vs boll
• Bowl vs bowel
• Bowled vs bold
• Boy vs buoy
• Brackets in Quotes - Usage & Examples
• Brackets vs. Parentheses
• Braggadocio
• Braggart vs bragger
• Braid vs brayed
• Brain trust vs think tank
• Brainchild
• Brainwash
• Braise, brays, or braze
• Brake vs. Break - Homophones, Spelling & Difference
• Brand spanking new
• Brandish vs brand
• Bravado
• Breach, breech, broach
• Bread and Butter - Origin & Meaning
• Bread vs. Bred - Homophones, Difference & Definition
• Breadcrumbs, breadcrumb trail and trail of breadcrumbs
• Break a Leg - Origin & Meaning
• Break the bank
• Break the Ice - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Break up vs. breakup
• Breastfeeding, breastfed, breastfeed, etc.
• Breath vs. breadth (vs. width)
• Breath vs. Breathe - Usage, Difference & Definition
• Breeches vs. Britches
• Brewed vs brood
• Brews vs. Bruise
• Brexit and Grexit
• Bric-a-brac and knick-knack
• Bridezilla - Origin & Meaning
• Bridle vs. bridal
• Brief vs debrief
• Bring home the bacon
• Bring one's A-game
• Bring the house down and bring down the house
• Bring vs take
• Brite vs. Bright - Meaning, Definition & Spelling
• Briton
• Briton vs Britain
• Broach vs. brooch
• Broke the mold
• Bronx cheer and blow a raspberry
• Brouhaha
• Brown-nose and brownnose
• Browse vs. Brows
• Brung, brang
• Brussels Sprout vs. Brussle Sprout
• Buck Naked vs. Butt Naked - Which Is Correct?
• Bucket list
• Buckle up vs buck up
• Buffaloed - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Buffer vs. buffet
• Buffet vs buffet
• Bugbear or bugaboo
• Build up vs. buildup
• Building castles in the air
• Bulk, balk, baulk
• Bullet Points - Rules, Usage, and Examples
• Bullion vs boullion
• Bullseye or bull's eye
• Bully pulpit
• Bum-rush vs bum's rush
• Bumpkin
• Bun in the oven
• Bundle of Joy - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Bunk vs debunk
• Bunk, bunkum, buncombe
• Bunny vs Bunnie
• Bunt vs. Bundt
• Bupkis
• Burger vs. Burgher
• Burgle vs. burglarize
• Burn one's bridges and burn one's boats
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Burned vs. Burnt - Difference, Definition & Examples
• Burning the midnight oil
• Burnish vs tarnish
• Burnout vs. burn out
• Burrow vs borrow
• Burst one's bubble and pop one's bubble
• Bursted
• Burthen
• Bury one's head in the sand
• Bury The Hatchet - Origin & Meaning
• Bus stop vs. busstop
• Bused, bussed, or bust
• Buses vs. busses
• Busman's Holiday - Origin & Meaning
• Bust one's chops and lick one's chops
• Busybody
• But vs. Butt - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• But vs. yet
• Butt heads and bump heads
• Butt of a joke
• Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
• Butterfingers
• Butterflies in one’s stomach
• Butterfly effect
• Buy a lemon
• Buy, by or bye
• Buzzword
• By and by vs. by the by
• By dint of
• By hook or by crook
• By the Same Token - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• By the skin of one's teeth
• By The Way (BTW) - Usage & Meaning
• C'est Comme Ca vs. Comme Ci, Comme Ca - Meaning in English
• C'est la vie
• Cabin fever
• Cacao vs. cocoa
• Cache vs cash
• Cache vs. cachet
• Cacti Vs Cactuses - Which Is The Correct Plural Usage
• Caddie vs. caddy
• Caddy-Corner, Kitty-Corner or Catty-Corner
• Caduceus vs staff of Asclepius
• Caesarean section, Caesarian, cesarean, etc.
• Cahoots
• Calendar vs colander
• Calfs or Calves - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Caliber or Calibre - Difference & Meaning
• Calibration vs collaboration
• Call a spade a spade
• Call it a day and call it a night
• Call on the carpet
• Call someone’s bluff
• Call the Shots (or Calling the Shots) - Idiom & Meaning
• Call vs caul
• Callous vs. callus
• Calm Before the Storm - Origin & Meaning
• Calumny
• Calvary vs. cavalry
• Camaraderie vs comradery
• Can goods or canned goods
• Can of worms vs pandora's box
• Can vs may
• Can You Put Parentheses Inside Parentheses?
• Can't hold a candle to
• Can't vs cant
• Canard
• Canary in the coalmine
• Canceled vs. Cancelled - Which Is Correct?
• Candor or candour
• Candy corn
• Candy Floss vs. Fairy Floss vs. Cotton Candy
• Cannon fodder
• Cannot or Can Not - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Canny vs uncanny
• Canon vs. cannon
• Cantankerous
• Cantor vs canter
• Canvas vs. canvass
• Capiche, Capeesh, Capische - Meaning & Usage
• Capital vs. Capitol - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Capitalization in Quotes
• Capitulate vs recapitulate
• Capstone, keystone or cornerstone
• Captivate vs capture
• Car hood and car bonnet
• Car park vs parking lot
• Caramel vs carmel
• Carbon copy
• Carbon footprint
• Carburetor vs carburettor
• Card Shark or Card Sharp - Origin & Meaning
• Careen vs. career
• Caregiver or caretaker
• Caretaker vs caregiver
• Carnation vs incarnation
• Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore
• Carpe Diem - Origin & Meaning
• Carpetbagger - Origin & Meaning
• Carrot-and-stick
• Carrot, carat, karat, caret
• Carry a torch for someone, torch song and torch singer
• Carry on, carry-on, and carrion
• Carte blanche
• Carved in stone, set in stone and written in stone
• Case in Point or Case and Point - Meaning & Difference
• Cash in one’s chips
• Cash on the nail and cash on the barrelhead
• Cashmere vs Kashmir
• Casket vs coffin
• Cassandra
• Cast a wide net
• Cast Aspersions - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Cast Aspersions or Dispersions - Difference & Meaning
• Cast pearls before swine
• Cast the first stone
• Cast-iron stomach
• Caste vs cast
• Casted - Usage & Meaning
• Cat got your tongue?
• Catachresis
• Catalog vs. Catalogue - Difference & Definition
• Catalyse or catalyze
• Catcall - Definition & Examples
• Catch lightning in a bottle
• Catch some rays
• Catch vs. Ketch
• Catch-22
• Categorize vs categorise
• Catsup vs. Ketchup vs. Catchup - What's the Difference?
• Cattle vs chattel
• Caucus
• Caught in the crosshairs or cross hairs
• Caught Red-Handed - Origin & Meaning
• Causative Verbs - Rules, Structure & List of Examples
• Causative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Cause Célèbre - Meaning & Examples
• Cauterize vs cauterise
• Cavalcade
• Caveat
• Caveat emptor
• Cay vs. Key vs. Quay - Homophones, Pronunciation & Definition
• Cease and desist
• Cede and seed
• Cede vs. concede
• Ceiling vs sealing
• Cel, cell or sell
• Celebrant or celebrator
• Celiac or coeliac
• Cellar vs. Seller
• Cent, scent and sent
• Center around or center on
• Center vs. Centre
• Century or Centuries - Usage & Meaning
• Cereal vs. Serial
• Ceremonial vs ceremonious
• Certainty vs. certitude
• Cession vs. session
• Chafe vs. chaff
• Chai vs chia
• Chain letter
• Chaise lounge and chaise longue
• Chalk up vs. chock
• Champing At The Bit Vs Chomping At The Bit & Meaning
• Change tack
• Chapstick
• Character or caricature
• Charade and charades
• Charism vs charisma
• Charlatan
• Charley horse
• Charnel house
• Chary vs. Cherry
• Chase one's own tail
• Chaste vs chased
• Chasten vs. chastise
• Chatbot
• Chateaus vs chateaux
• Chatty Cathy - Origin & Meaning
• Cheap vs. Cheep
• Cheapskate - Origin & Meaning
• Check in vs. Check-in (vs. Checkin)
• Check Kiting - Meaning & Examples
• Check Up, Checkup or Check-Up - Which One to Use?
• Check vs. Cheque - Difference & Definition
• Checkered Past or Chequered Past - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Checkout vs. check out
• Cheek by jowl
• Cheek to cheek vs cheek-to-cheek
• Chew someone out
• Chew the Fat - Origin & Meaning
• Chews vs choose
• Chic vs. sheik
• Chicanery
• Chick flick and chick lit
• Chicken and egg situation
• Chickens come home to roost
• Childcare, child care, child-care
• Childlike vs. Childish - What's the Difference?
• Chili vs Chilly - What's the Difference?
• Chills down the spine
• Chink vs. kink
• Chinwag
• Chip on Your Shoulder - Origin & Meaning
• Chips vs. fries
• Choate or inchoate
• Chock-a-block vs chockablock
• Chock-full
• Choosing a Name For Your Proofreading Business
• Chopper vs. copter
• Chorale, Choral or Corral
• Chortle
• Chose vs. Choose - Usage With Examples
• Chow vs. Ciao
• Chunder or chunter
• Chute vs. shoot
• Cinch the deal or clinch the deal
• Cisgender vs transgender
• Cistern vs sister
• Citizen journalism
• Civic vs. civil
• Civil rights and human rights
• Civilise vs. civilize
• Clam up
• Clamor vs clamber
• Claptrap
• Classic vs. classical
• Clause vs claws
• Clean someone's clock
• Clean vs. cleanse
• Cleanliness is next to godliness
• Cleanup vs. clean up
• Cleave
• Clef vs cliff
• Clench vs. clinch
• Clew vs clue
• Click vs clique
• Clickbait - Origin & Meaning
• Client vs. Customer - Difference in Meaning & Usage
• Cliffhanger
• Cliffs Notes
• Climactic vs. climatic
• Clime vs climb
• Cloak-and-Dagger - Origin & Meaning
• Close Proximity or In Close Proximity - Meaning & Definition
• Close ranks
• Close rhyme
• Close shave
• Close vs clothes
• Close vs. Close - Difference & Meaning
• Close-Knit vs. Tight-Knit - Usage & Meaning
• Close-Minded or Closed-Minded - Definition & Examples
• Closer vs closure
• Cloth vs clothes
• Cloture vs closure
• Cloying and mawkish
• Co-op vs. co-opt
• Co-ordinate vs coordinate
• Coal, cole or kohl
• Coarse vs. course
• Coast is clear
• Cock and bull story
• Cockamamie
• Coddle and mollycoddle
• Coddle vs. Caudle
• Coffice
• Cog In The Wheel Or Cog In The Machine - Origin & Meaning
• Cognate and false cognate
• Coiffure vs coiffeur
• Coin a phrase
• Cold Feet - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Cold Shoulder - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Cold Turkey - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Cold-call
• Coliseum vs. colosseum
• Collaborate vs corroborate
• Collectible vs collectable
• Collective nouns
• College vs. University - Usage, Difference, & Meaning
• Collegial vs. collegiate
• Collision vs collusion
• Collocate vs colocate
• Colon vs. Semicolon. vs. Dash - Usage and Examples
• Colonize vs colonise
• Colons With Lists - How To Use Them Correctly
• Color outside the lines
• Color vs. Colour - Difference & Examples
• Coma vs comma
• Comb-over
• Combine vs combine
• Come hell or high water
• Come over vs overcome
• Come What May - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Come-hither look
• Come-to-Jesus moment and come-to-Jesus meeting
• Comedienne
• Comeuppance
• Comic vs. comical
• Coming Down the Pike vs. Coming Down the Pipe
• Coming of age
• Comity vs comedy
• Comma Before or After Parenthesis? Examples and Worksheet
• Comma Before or After Thus
• Comma Before Too - Guide & Examples
• Comma Rules and Usage With Examples
• Comma Usage Before and After "and" - Examples Included
• Commas and Conjunctions - Ultimate Guide (with Worksheet)
• Commas in a List - How To Use Them Correctly
• Commas in Dates - Rules and Examples
• Commencement
• Commend vs command
• Commentator vs. commenter
• Commiserate vs commensurate
• Common French expressions
• Compact vs compact
• Comparative Adjectives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Comparatives and Superlatives - Examples & Worksheet
• Compared To or With - Which One To Use?
• Comparing apples and oranges
• Compel vs. impel
• Competence and competency
• Complacent vs complicit
• Complacent vs. complaisant
• Complement vs. compliment
• Compose vs. comprise
• Compound vs compound
• Compress vs compress
• Comprise vs compromise
• Compunction vs compulsion
• Computerize or computerise
• Concave vs. convex
• Conceded or conceited
• Conceive vs. perceive
• Concerning - Usage, Meaning & Synonyms
• Concerted
• Conches vs. conchs
• Concurrent vs consecutive
• Condemn vs. condone
• Conditionals - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Conditionals Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Conduct vs conduct
• Confidant vs. confidante
• Confident vs confidant/confidante
• Confirmation bias
• Conflate vs conflagrate
• Conflict of interest
• Confusables
• Congruent vs. congruous
• Conjunctions to start sentences
• Conker vs. Conquer
• Connect the dots and join the dots
• Connexion
• Connive vs contrive
• Connote vs. denote
• Conscience, conscious and self-conscious
• Conservatory, solarium or sunroom
• Consolation vs constellation
• Console vs console
• Consonance vs assonance
• Conspiracy or collusion
• Constant vs consistent
• Construct vs construct
• Consultative
• Contaminate vs contaminant
• Contemporaneous vs. contemporary
• Contemptible vs. contemptuous
• Content Editing vs. Copy Editing - What's the Difference?
• Content or Contented vs. Contently or Contentedly
• Content vs content
• Contest vs contest
• Contiguous vs continuous
• Continental breakfast
• Contingency vs contingent
• Continual vs. Continuous - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Contract a disease or contact a disease
• Contractions
• Contraption
• Contravene vs contradict
• Contronym and auto-antonym
• Contumely
• Conundrum
• Conversate
• Convict vs convict
• Convivial vs congenial
• Convocation, commencement or invocation
• Cook the Books - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Cool as a Cucumber - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Cool one's heels
• Cooler heads prevail
• Coon's age
• Coop, coup or coupe
• Cooperate or Co-Operate - What's the Difference?
• Coordinate adjectives
• Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives - Examples & Worksheet
• Cooties
• Copacetic or copasetic
• Copse vs. Cops
• Copy Edit or Copyedit - Which is Correct?
• Copy Editing Test - Can you Pass This Quiz?
• Copy Editing vs Proofreading
• Copyright vs. copywrite
• Copyscape Review - Any Good Alternatives?
• Copywriter vs. Copy Editor - What's the Difference?
• Coral vs. corral
• Cord vs. Chord - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Core, corps and corpse
• Cornball and corny
• Cornet vs. coronet
• Corollary vs. correlation
• Correspondence vs correspondents
• Corroborate vs cooperate
• Cosmetology vs. cosmology
• Cosset vs corset
• Cosy vs. cozy
• Cottage industry
• Could care less
• Could have, could've or could of
• Could Have, Should Have & Would Have Exercises
• Could Have, Should Have, and Would Have - Examples & Worksheet
• Council vs. Counsel - Difference & Examples
• Counsel vs consul
• Counselor vs. Counsellor
• Countable Nouns - List of Examples & Worksheet
• Country mile
• Coup d'état
• Coup de grace
• Coups vs coos
• Court disaster
• Cover all the bases
• Covert vs overt
• Covet vs covert
• Coward vs. Cowered
• Crack down vs. crackdown
• Crack the Whip - Origin & Meaning
• Crackerjack
• Crap
• Crapshoot
• Crave vs craven
• Crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, etc.
• Crayon vs Crayola
• Cream of the crop
• Creature comfort
• Crèche and manger
• Credible vs. credulous
• Credible, creditable or credulous
• Creek vs. Creak
• Creeped or Crept - What's the Difference?
• Crème De La Crème - Origin & Meaning
• Crevasse vs. crevice
• Crewel vs cruel
• Crews vs cruise
• Crick (variant of creek)
• Crier vs. cryer
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crisis of conscience vs crisis of confidence
• Criteria, criterion
• Criticise or Criticize (+ Criticised & Criticising)
• Crooked vs crooked
• Cross the Line - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Cross the Rubicon
• Cross to Bear - Origin & Meaning
• Cross vs crucifix
• Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding
• Croze vs. Crows
• Cruciferous
• Crueler or crueller, cruelest or cruellest
• Crumby vs. crummy
• Cry all the way to the bank
• Cry over spilled milk and cry over spilt milk
• Cryptid
• Cul-de-Sac - Usage, Meaning & Spelling
• Culpable vs liable
• Cultural appropriation
• Cum
• Curate's egg
• Curb vs. kerb
• Curds and whey
• Curiosity killed the cat
• Curl one's hair
• Curly Braces Punctuation - Is It Brackets or Braces?
• Curmudgeon
• Currant vs current
• Currently - Correct Usage, Grammar & Examples
• Curricula vs curriculums
• Curry favor
• Cursor vs curser
• Cursory vs curse
• Curtsy vs. Courtesy - Difference & Meaning
• Custom vs costume
• Customise vs. Customize
• Cut and dried
• Cut off your nose to spite your face
• Cut one's losses
• Cut the Mustard - Meaning and Origin
• Cut to the Chase - Meaning & Origin
• Cut to the quick
• Cut-throat
• Cute as a Button - Origin & Meaning
• Cyber-
• Cybersquatting
• Cyclist vs. biker
• Cynical
• D'oh
• Dactyl
• Daily grind
• Dam vs Damn - What's the Difference?
• Damn the torpedoes
• Damn with faint praise
• Dampen, damper, dampener
• Dance on someone's grave
• Danglers
• Dangling modifier
• Daresay
• Dark horse
• Dashes - Usage & Examples (With Worksheet)
• Data is or Data are? The Singular vs. Plural Debate
• Davy Jones's locker
• Dawn on
• Daylight Saving Time or British Summer Time
• Days vs daze
• De facto
• De rigueur
• Dead as a Doornail - Origin & Meaning
• Dead end
• Dead Man Walking - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Dead meat
• Dead set, dead-set, deadset
• Dead to rights
• Deadbeat - Definition & Meaning
• Deaf vs deft
• Dealed or Dealt - What's the Past Tense of Deal?
• Dearth
• Debark or disembark
• Debauchery
• Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
• Decent vs. descent
• Deceptively
• Decidedly
• Decimate
• Decisive vs divisive
• Deck the halls
• Declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative sentences
• Deconstruction
• Decrepit vs deprecate
• Decry vs. descry
• Decussate vs desiccate
• Deduce vs. induce
• Deduct vs deduce
• Deep-seeded vs. deep-seated
• Deepfake
• Deepnet, darknet and deep web
• Deer in the Headlights - Origin & Meaning
• Deer vs deers
• Defence vs. Defense - Which One to Use?
• Defenestration
• Definite Articles in English With Examples and Quiz
• Definite vs definitive
• Definition and Examples of Interjections
• Defuse vs. diffuse
• Degenerate vs denigrate
• Deign
• Deign vs Dane
• Déjà vu
• Delegate vs delegate
• Delegate vs relegate
• Deleterious vs detrimental
• Deliberate vs deliberate
• Delude vs dilute
• Delusions of grandeur
• Demagogue vs demigod
• Demeanor or demeanour
• Demon vs daemon
• Demonstrative Pronouns Definition and Examples - This, That, These, Those
• Demur vs. demure
• Denounce vs. renounce
• Dent vs dint
• Dents vs. Dense
• Dependant vs. dependent
• Deplane or disembark
• Depose vs dispose
• Deposition vs disposition
• Depository vs. repository
• Depravation vs deprivation
• Deprecate vs. depreciate
• Depute vs dispute
• Derision vs decision
• Derring-do
• Descendant vs. descendent
• Desert vs. Desert - Usage & Meaning
• Desert vs. Dessert - When to Use Each One
• Desolate vs destitute
• Desperate vs disparate
• Despite vs. In Spite Of - Difference & Meaning
• Destroy vs. destruct
• Deteriorate vs decline
• Detract vs. distract
• Deus ex machina
• Developmental Editing vs Copy Editing: What's the Difference?
• Device vs. devise
• Devil take the hindmost
• Devil's advocate
• Deviled vs devilled
• Deviser vs. Divisor
• Dew, do and due
• Dewclaw
• Dharma and karma
• Diagram
• Dialectal vs. dialectical
• Dialogue vs dialog
• Diametrically opposed
• Diamond in the rough
• Diaspora
• Dibs and calling dibs
• Dice Vs Die - Which Is Singular And Which Is Plural?
• Dichotomy vs discrepancy
• Dichotomy vs paradox
• Dickensian
• Didactic vs pedantic
• Die on the vine
• Dieresis and diaeresis
• Dietician vs. Dietitian - Meaning & Correct Spelling
• Difference Between Tell and Say - Examples & Worksheet
• Difference vs deference
• Different from, different than, different to
• Differential vs deferential
• Digest vs digest
• Dike or Dyke - What's the Difference?
• Diktat
• Dilapidated
• Dingo's breakfast
• Dire straits
• Dire vs dyer
• Directional words
• Dirigible or blimp
• Dirty Pool
• Dis vs. diss
• Disabuse, misuse and abuse
• Disassemble vs. dissemble
• Disburse vs. disperse
• Disc vs. disk
• Discombobulate
• Discomfit vs. discomfort
• Disconnect
• Discord vs accord
• Discrete vs. discreet
• Disdain or distain
• Disenfranchise vs. disfranchise
• Disillusion vs. dissolution
• Disinterested vs. uninterested
• Disparity vs disparateness
• Dispatch vs. Despatch
• Dispense with vs. dispose of
• Disposed vs. predisposed
• Dissatisfied or unsatisfied
• Dissent vs descent
• Dissociate vs. disassociate
• Distaff
• Distinct vs. distinctive
• Distrust vs. mistrust
• Ditto and ditto mark
• Divers vs. diverse
• Divorcée, divorcé, divorcee
• Do & Make Exercises (With Worksheet PDF)
• Do a 180 or do a 360
• Do a Houdini and pull a Houdini
• Do apologize
• Do as I say, not as I do
• Do right by
• Do the math
• Do You Capitalize The Word "Internet"?
• Do You Capitalize Words in Parentheses?
• Do You Need a Comma After Thank You? Rules and Examples
• Do You Put A Comma Before Since?
• Do You Put A Period After An Abbreviation?
• Do, Does, Am, Is & Are Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Docent
• Dock vs doc
• Dodged a Bullet - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Does Punctuation Go Inside or Outside of Quotation Marks?
• Does the Comma Go Before or After "So"?
• Does the Comma Go Before or After Quotation Marks?
• Does the Comma Go Before or After Such As?
• Does the Period Go Before or After Parentheses?
• Does vs does
• Doesn't Hold Water (or Do Not Hold Water) - Origin & Meaning
• Dog and pony show
• Dog days
• Dog-ear
• Dog-Eat-Dog and Doggy Dog - Meaning & Examples
• Dog-whistle
• Dogged vs dogged
• Doggerel
• Doggie bag and doggy bag
• Dogs of War - Origin & Meaning
• Doh, doe or dough
• Dole out vs. doll out
• Dollars to doughnuts
• Dominant vs predominant
• Dominate vs dominant
• Don vs. Dawn - Difference in Meaning & Spelling
• Don't (or Never) Judge a Book By Its Cover - Origin & Meaning
• Don't borrow trouble
• Don't change horses in midstream
• Don't count your chickens
• Don't give up the ship
• Don't hold your breath
• Don't let the door hit you
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket - Expansion of Idea
• Don't Rain on My Parade - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Don't's or don'ts
• Done vs. Dun
• Donner or Donder
• Doodle
• Doomsday vs Domesday
• Doppelgänger
• Dos or do's
• Dossier
• Dotage vs senility
• Dotard
• Double dog dare
• Double down vs buckle down
• Double entendre
• Double jeopardy
• Double negatives
• Double vs. redouble
• Double-Check - Usage & Meaning
• Double-edged sword
• Doublethink, doublespeak or double-talk
• Doubting Thomas
• Doubtlessly
• Doughnut vs. Donut - What's the Difference?
• Douse vs. dowse
• Dove vs dove
• Dove vs. dived
• Down at the heels
• Down in the Dumps - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Down in the mouth
• Down the Hatch - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Down the Rabbit Hole - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Down the Road - Meaning & Synonyms
• Down to the wire
• Downfall vs. downside
• Downplay or play down
• Downright vs outright
• Doxing and doxxing
• Doyen or doyenne vs docent
• Draconian
• Draft vs. draught
• Drag one's feet and drag one's heels
• Dragged vs. drug
• Draughts and checkers
• Draw a bead on
• Draw a Blank - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Draw a line in the sand
• Drawer vs drawer
• Dreamed or Dreamt - What's the Past Tense of Dream?
• Dredge up and dig up
• Dredge vs drudge
• Dregs vs dredge
• Dreidel or dreidl
• Dribble vs. drivel
• Dribs and drabs
• Drier vs. dryer
• Drink the Kool-Aid
• Drink, Drank or Drunk - Usage, Rules & Examples
• Drive-by
• Droid vs. Android vs. Robot - What's the Difference?
• Droll
• Drop a Dime (or Dropping Dimes) - Origin & Meaning
• Drop in the Bucket - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Drop like flies
• Drop off vs. drop-off (vs. dropoff)
• Drop someone a line
• Drop the Ball - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Drop-dead vs drop dead!
• Drown one's sorrows
• Drum someone out
• Druthers
• Dry goods
• Dry Run - Meaning & Origin
• Du jour
• Dual vs. duel
• Duck tape or duct tape
• Dudgeon vs dungeon
• Due process
• Due to vs because of
• Duly Noted - Meaning, Usage & Examples
• Duly vs dully
• Dumb down
• Dumb waiter and dumbwaiter
• Dumpster fire
• Dumpster vs dumpster
• Duplicate vs duplicity
• Duplicate vs replicate
• During the course of
• Dwarfs vs. dwarves
• Dwelled vs. dwelt
• Dyed in the wool
• Dyeing vs. dying
• Dystopia or utopia
• E pluribus unum
• E-book, ebook, eBook
• E-mail vs. email
• E. coli
• Each other vs. one another
• Eager beaver
• Ear candy and eye candy
• Earn vs urn
• Earnest vs Ernest
• Earthy vs. earthly
• Earworm
• Easier said than done
• Easter egg
• Easy On the Eyes - Origin & Meaning
• Easy pickings
• Eat crow
• Eat humble pie
• Eat one's words
• Eat, drink and be merry
• Eating out of someone's hand
• Eaves vs. Eves - Difference & Meaning
• Eavesdrop
• Ecclesiastical and ecclesiastic
• Eclipses vs ellipsis
• Economic vs Economical - Definition & Examples
• Economics vs. finance
• Ecumenical
• Editing & Proofreading Worksheets
• Editing vs Proofreading
• Eek vs. eke
• Eeny, meeny, miny, mo
• Effable vs affable
• Effete
• Egging Someone On - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Eggnog
• Egregious vs gregarious
• Eighty-six
• Either vs ether
• Elaborate vs elaborate
• Elbow grease
• Elbow room
• Elder, Eldest or Oldest - What's the Difference?
• Electric vs eclectic
• Electric, electrical, electronic
• Elegy vs. eulogy
• Elephant in the Room - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Elfs vs. elves
• Elicit vs. illicit
• Elocution vs. locution
• Elvis has left the building
• Em Dash Usage and Examples
• Embed vs imbed
• Embedded Questions - Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• Embolization and embolisation
• Emeritus - Meaning & Definition
• Emigrate vs Immigrate - What's the Difference?
• Eminent vs. immanent vs. imminent
• Emission vs omission
• Emoji vs emoticon
• Emolument vs emollient
• Empathetic vs. empathic
• Empathy vs. sympathy
• Emphasise vs emphasize
• Empire vs umpire
• En Dash (En Rule) - When To Use It (With Examples)
• En Dash vs. Em Dash vs. Hyphen - How to Properly Use Them
• En Masse - Meaning & Examples
• En route
• En vogue, in vogue
• Enamor vs. enamour
• Enclose vs. inclose
• End of the line
• End on a high note and go out on a high note
• End run
• Endear or Endeared - Usage & Definition
• Endeavor vs. endeavour
• Ending a Sentence With a Preposition (Worksheet Included)
• Endorphin
• Energize vs energise
• Enervate
• Enervate vs energize
• Enervate vs. innervate
• Enfant terrible
• Enfold vs. Infold
• England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
• English moods (imperative, indicative, and subjunctive)
• Engrain vs. ingrain
• Enjoin vs join
• Enmity vs animosity
• Enormity vs. enormousness
• Enquire vs. inquire
• Enrol vs. Enroll
• Ensconce vs sconce
• Enthuse
• Entitled vs. titled
• Entomology vs. etymology
• Entrance vs entrance
• Entree vs entrée
• Enunciation vs. Annunciation - Difference & Meaning
• Envelop vs. envelope
• Envision vs. envisage
• Envoi vs. envoy
• Épée, foil or sabre
• Epic vs epoch
• Epicenter
• Epidemic vs. Pandemic
• Epigram vs. epigraph
• Epiphany or Twelfth Night
• Epitaph vs epithet
• Epithet vs sobriquet
• Epitome vs epiphany
• Eponymous
• Equable, equatable, equitable
• Equator vs prime meridian
• Equivalence vs. equivalency
• Equivocate vs prevaricate
• Ere vs. err
• Ergo
• Ergonomics
• Erin Go Bragh - Meaning & Origin
• Erratum, addendum and corrigendum
• Ersatz
• Erupt vs irrupt
• Esoteric vs archaic
• Especial vs. Special - Difference & Meaning
• Especially vs specially
• Espouse vs expound
• Espresso vs. expresso
• Esprit de corps
• Estimate vs estimate
• Estimate vs. estimation
• Estimation or approximation
• Et Al Meaning, Punctuation and Usage With Examples
• Et cetera (etc.)
• Ethereal vs ephemeral
• Ethics vs. Morals - Definition, Difference & Examples
• Ethnic vs ethic
• Ethnicity vs. race
• Euphemism
• Evacuate
• Evade vs invade
• Even keel
• Even-Steven and Even-Stevens
• Ever and Never - Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
• Every nook and cranny
• Everybody who is anybody
• Everyday vs. Every Day - What's the Difference?
• Everyone vs every one
• Everything happens for a reason
• Evidence vs evince
• Ewe, yew or you
• Ex post facto
• Exacerbate vs exasperate
• Exact revenge vs extract revenge
• Exalt vs. exult
• Exceed vs accede
• Excelsior and wood wool
• Excited vs exited
• Exclamation Point (!) - Learn How to Use it Properly
• Excoriate vs execrate
• Excrete vs secrete
• Exculpate vs exonerate
• Excuse vs excuse
• Exemplary - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Exercise vs. exorcise
• Exhibit vs. exhibition
• Exhort vs extort
• Existent vs. extant
• Existential - Meaning & Definition
• Expatriate vs ex-patriot
• Expatriate vs immigrant
• Expectant vs. expecting
• Expedient vs expeditious
• Expedite vs expedient
• Expend vs. Expand - Difference & Definition
• Expiration date and expiry date
• Explicate vs expletive
• Explicit vs implicit
• Exploitive vs. Exploitative - Definition & Etymology
• Expose vs exposé
• Expound vs expand
• Extant vs extent
• Extemporaneous
• Extol vs extoll
• Extract vs extract
• Extradite vs expedite
• Extraordinaire
• Extricate vs extirpate
• Exuberant vs exorbitant
• Eyelet vs islet
• Fabulist
• Face the music
• Facepalm
• Factious vs facetious
• Factious vs fractious
• Factoid
• Factotum - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Faeces vs feces
• Fail vs flunk
• Fain vs. feign
• Faint of heart
• Faint vs feint
• Fair and Square - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Fair dinkum
• Fair To Middling Vs Fair To Midland
• Fair vs. fare
• Fair-weather friend
• Fairy vs ferry
• Fairy-tale ending
• Fait accompli
• Faker vs fakir
• Fall From Grace - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Fall guy
• Fall into one's lap and land in one's lap
• Fall on one's sword
• Fall through the cracks and slip through the cracks
• Fallow vs follow
• False flag
• Falseness vs. Falsity vs. Falsehood - Meaning & Definition
• Fame vs defame
• Familiarity breeds contempt
• Famous last words
• Famous, infamous and notorious
• Fan the flames
• Fantods
• Far East, Middle East, Near East
• Far-fetched - Meaning & Definition
• Faraway vs far away
• Faro, Farrow or Pharaoh
• Farther vs. Further - Difference, Definition & Examples
• Fastly
• Fatal vs fateful
• Fate vs. Fete - Homphones, Meaning & Examples
• Fatuous vs facetious
• Faun vs. fawn
• Faux
• Faux pas
• Faux-naïf
• Favorite or Favourite - Meaning & Difference in Spelling
• Favour or Favor - Which Spelling to Use?
• Fay, fey
• Faze vs. phase
• Fearful vs. fearsome
• Feather one's nest
• Feckless
• Feckless vs reckless
• Feeding frenzy
• Feel one's oats
• Feet of Clay - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Feet vs feat
• Fell off the back of a truck
• Feminity vs. femininity
• Femme fatale
• Ferment or foment
• Ferret out
• Fervent vs. fervid
• Festivus
• Fete
• Few vs. Phew
• Fewer vs. Less
• Fiancé vs. fiancée
• Fiat
• Fiber vs. fibre
• Fiction vs. nonfiction
• Fictional vs. fictitious
• Fiddle while Rome burns
• Fie
• Fiefdom
• Fifteen minutes of fame
• Fifth column
• Fifth wheel vs third wheel
• Fight Fire With Fire - Origin & Meaning
• Fight tooth and nail
• Figment of one’s imagination
• Figurehead
• Figures of speech
• File, Phial or Faille
• Filet vs. fillet
• Filibuster
• Final vs finale
• Finale vs finally
• Financer vs. financier
• Find vs fined
• Finders keepers
• Finely or finally
• Finger-licking good
• Finger-pointing and point the finger
• Fingers Crossed - Origin & Meaning
• Finite Verbs - Definition and Examples
• Fire and brimstone
• Fire in the hole vs fire in the hold
• Firebrand
• Firefight
• Fireplace vs hearth
• Firing line vs. line of fire
• Firing on all cylinders
• First aid
• First Come, First Served
• First Conditional - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• First Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• First Floor - Meaning & Spelling
• First things first
• First World problem
• First-world, third-world
• Firsthand and secondhand vs first-hand and second-hand
• Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, etc.
• Fiscal vs physical
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish or Fishes - What is the Plural of Fish?
• Fish story
• Fissure vs fisher
• Fit the bill and fill the bill
• Fit To Be Tied - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Fit vs. fitted
• Five o’clock shadow
• Flack vs. flak
• Flagellants vs flatulence
• Flagship - Meaning & Definition
• Flair vs. flare
• Flammable vs. inflammable
• Flap one’s gums
• Flash in the pan
• Flash mob
• Flat out
• Flatten the curve
• Flaunt vs. flout
• Flautist vs. flutist
• Flavor of the month
• Flavor vs. flavour
• Flea vs flee
• Flesh and blood
• Flesh out vs. flush out
• Flesh vs flèche
• Fleshly vs. fleshy
• Fleur-de-lis
• Flied - Meaning & Definition
• Flip one's lid vs. flip one's wig
• Flocks vs phlox
• Floe vs flow
• Flora and fauna
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Flounder vs. founder
• Flour and Flower - What's the Difference?
• Flu vs. flue
• Flue vs flew
• Flummox
• Fluorescent vs incandescent
• Fly in the face of
• Fly in the ointment
• Fly off the handle
• Fly the coop
• Fly-by-night
• Foaled vs fold
• Foaming at the mouth
• Fob off
• Foe vs faux
• Fold one's tent
• Folderol
• Foley
• Follow suit
• Follow up vs. Follow-up vs. Followup - Which is Correct?
• FOMO
• Font vs fount
• Food Coma - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Food for thought
• Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's paradise
• Foolproof vs. full-proof
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Foot long
• Foot the bill
• Footloose and fancy-free
• For all intensive purposes (for all intents and purposes)
• For all the marbles
• For crying out loud
• For God's sake
• For heaven's sake
• For the birds
• For the purpose of
• For, four and fore
• Fora vs. forums
• Forbear vs. forebear
• Forbidden Fruit - Idiom, Meaning & Examples
• Forbidding vs. foreboding
• Force majeure
• Forceful vs forcible
• Forego vs. forgo
• Foregone conclusion
• Forewarned is forearmed
• Foreword vs. forward
• Formally vs formerly
• Format Editor vs. Copy Editor - What's the Difference?
• Former vs. Latter - Usage With Examples
• Formulas vs formulae
• Forte
• Forth vs fourth
• Fortnight
• Fortuitous vs. fortunate
• Fortune Favors The Bold And Fortune Favors The Brave
• Forty winks
• Fosbury flop
• Foul vs. Fowl - Difference & Meaning
• Fount Of Knowledge Or Wisdom VS Font Of Knowledge Or Wisdom
• Four-flusher
• Four-letter word
• Fourty or Forty - What's the Correct Spelling of 40?
• Fox guarding the hen house
• Fracking
• Fractious vs fracas
• Frankenstein's monster
• Frankincense and myrrh
• Fraud or defraud
• Fraught
• Free Proofreading Quiz - Test Your Skills
• Free Rein or Free Reign - Which One Should You Use?
• Free-for-all
• Freegan and freeganism
• Freeze vs. Frieze
• French Accent Marks - Aigu, Grave And More
• French alphabet pronunciation
• French Days,  Months and Seasons
• French definite articles
• French indefinite articles
• French noun gender
• French numbers
• French partitive article
• Frenemy
• Freshwater vs. fresh water
• Freudian slip
• Friable vs. Fryable
• Friar vs. Fryer
• Friends with benefits
• Fringe benefit
• Fritter away
• Frivolity vs. frivolousness
• Frog in one’s throat
• Frogmarch or frog-march
• From Pillar to Post - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• From Soup to Nuts
• From the bottom of one's heart
• From the get-go
• Fueled/fueling vs. fuelled/fuelling
• Fulfil vs. fulfill
• Full of beans
• Full of oneself
• Full stop vs. period
• Full-Court Press - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Full-Fledged or Fully Fledged - Meaning & Difference
• Fulsome
• Funereal
• Fungi vs. funguses
• Funk
• Funner, funnest
• Fur vs fir
• Furlough
• Furor vs. furore
• Fusillade vs fuselage
• Fusion vs confusion
• Futile vs feudal
• Future Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
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• Future Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses & Worksheet
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• Future Perfect Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Future Perfect Tense - Uses & Examples (With Worksheet)
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• Futz vs. Putz or Futzing Around vs. Putzing Around
• Gaelic vs Gallic
• Gaff vs. gaffe
• Gage, gauge, and gouge
• Gaiety or mirth
• Gainsay
• Gait vs gate
• Gaiter vs. Gator
• Gall or Gaul - Definition & Difference
• Gallimaufry
• Gallop vs Gallup
• Gallop vs. Galop
• Galore - Meaning & Definition
• Galumph
• Gambit
• Gambol vs. gamble
• Game Changer - Origin & Meaning
• Game the system
• Gamut vs gambit
• Gantlet vs. gauntlet
• Gaol vs. jail
• Garbage in, garbage out
• Gargle vs. gurgle
• Gargoyle or grotesque
• Garner vs garnish
• Garnish vs garnishee
• Garret vs garrote
• Garrote, garrotte, or garotte
• Garter snake
• Gaslighting
• Gasses vs. Gases - Which is the Correct Plural?
• Gatecrasher
• Gaudy vs. gawdy
• Gavel-to-Gavel - Meaning & Examples
• Gel or Jell vs. Jelled or Gelled - Difference & Meaning
• Gemology vs gemmology
• Gender vs engender
• Gender vs. sex
• Generalize vs generalise
• Genericide
• Genes vs. Jeans
• Gentle vs genteel
• Gentrification
• Geographic vs geographical
• German vs germane
• Gerrymander
• Gerund - Definition and Sentence Examples
• Gerunds and Infinitives - Rules, Examples & Worksheet
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Gestalt
• Gesture vs jester
• Gesundheit
• Get a foot in the door
• Get a handle on
• Get a word in edgewise and get a word in edgeways
• Get back on the horse
• Get in on the ground floor
• Get one's act together
• Get one's dander up or get one's dandruff up
• Get one's ducks in a row and have one's ducks in a row
• Get one's hands dirty
• Get one’s back up
• Get out of Dodge
• Get religion
• Get Someone's Goat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Get the ball rolling and start the ball rolling
• Get the lead out
• Get the Scoop or Inside Scoop - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Get the short end or the wrong end of the stick
• Get the skinny
• Get together vs get-together
• Get under one's skin
• Get up in one's grill
• Get up on the wrong side of the bed and wake up on the wrong side of the bed
• Get wind of
• Get, Got or Gotten - When & How to Use Correctly
• Getaway vs get away
• Getting Hitched - Origin & Meaning
• Ghost in the machine
• Ghost vs ghoul
• Ghosting
• Gibberish
• Gibe, jibe, jive
• Gift (as a verb)
• Gild the lily
• Gild vs. guild
• Gilt vs guilt
• Gimlet eye and gimlet cocktail
• Gimme
• Gin Up or Ginned Up - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Ginger Grammar Checker Review
• Ginger vs. Grammarly
• Ginger vs. ProWritingAid
• Ginormous
• Gird Your Loins - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Gist or Jist - Difference & Meaning
• Gist vs jest
• Git-go
• Give a wide berth
• Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile
• Give it the old college try
• Give one's eye teeth
• Give someone the third degree
• Give up the ghost
• Give yourself away
• Glad-hand
• Glamour vs. glamor
• Glamping
• Glare vs glair
• Glass ceiling
• Gleam vs glean
• Glib
• Glom onto
• Gloves are off, take the gloves off
• Go Big or Go Home - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Go down a treat
• Go for a song
• Go for broke
• Go for the jugular
• Go great guns
• Go Haywire - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Go into a tailspin and send someone into a tailspin
• Go off half-cocked and go off at half-cock
• Go Off the Rails - Origin & Meaning
• Go over with a fine-tooth comb
• Go pear-shaped
• Go the distance
• Go The Extra Mile - Idiom, Meaning & Examples
• Go to ground
• Go to pot
• Go to seed
• Go to the Dogs - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Go to the mat and take it to the mat
• Go with the Flow - Origin & Meaning
• Go-between
• Gobbledygook
• Gobsmacked
• God helps those who help themselves
• Goes without saying
• Gofer vs. gopher
• Going Against the Grain - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Going Bananas - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Going Dutch and Dutch treat
• Going to Hell in a Handbasket - Origin & Meaning
• Going to rack and ruin
• Gold Digger - Origin & Meaning
• Goldbrick
• Golden ticket
• Gonna
• Good enough for government work and close enough for government work
• Good riddance
• Good Samaritan
• Good vs well
• Goodly
• Goody Two Shoes - Origin & Meaning
• Goose egg
• Goose is cooked
• Goose that lays the golden eggs
• Goose-step
• Gorilla vs. guerrilla
• Gourmet vs gourmand
• Governance vs. government
• Graduate vs graduate
• Graffiti
• Grammar vs. Punctuation - What's the Difference?
• Grammar vs. Syntax - What's the Difference?
• Grammar vs. usage
• Grammarist
• Grammarly Chrome Extension How To Use
• Grammarly Free vs. Premium vs. Business
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• Grand slam
• Grandfather (as a verb)
• Grasping at straws or clutching at straws
• Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• Grassroots vs grass roots
• Grate on one’s nerves
• Grate or Great - Homophones, Meaning & Usage
• Grateful vs. gratified
• Gratis, gratuitous and gratuity
• Gravity vs levity
• Gravy Train - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Gray or Grey - Are Both Correct?
• Graze vs grays or greys
• Grease someone's palm
• Great Scott!
• Green around the gills and green about the gills
• Green light
• Green thumb and green fingers
• Green-eyed monster
• Gregarious vs garrulous
• Grenadine vs grenade
• Grieve vs aggrieve
• Grieve vs greave
• Grill vs. grille
• Grin like a Cheshire cat
• Grinch - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Grinded
• Grip vs. Grippe
• Grisly vs. grizzly
• Groan vs grown
• Grok
• Gross vs net
• Ground zero
• Groupthink
• Gruel vs grueling
• Guarantee vs guaranty
• Guessed vs guest
• Guesstimate
• Guinea pig
• Guise vs. Guys
• Gumption
• Gun-shy
• Gung-ho
• Gunwale and gunnel
• Gussied up
• Guyline vs guideline
• Gymnasia vs. gymnasiums
• Habeas corpus
• Habit vs habitat
• Hail Mary play or Hail Mary pass
• Hail vs. hale
• Hair of the Dog - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Hair vs hare
• Hair's Breadth or Hair's Breath - Definition & Examples
• Hairbrained vs. harebrained
• Hairy vs. harry
• Half a loaf is better than none and half a loaf is better than no bread
• Half-mast vs. half-staff
• Halfhearted and half-hearted
• Halitosis
• Hall vs haul
• Hallow vs. hollow
• Halloween or Hallowe'en
• Halve or Half - Difference, Usage & Meaning
• Halve vs have
• Ham it up
• Ham-fisted and ham-handed
• Hand Over Fist - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Hand to mouth
• Hand-me-down
• Hand-wash
• Handful, handfuls
• Handicap vs. handicapped
• Handle with kid gloves
• Hands down
• Hands on or hands-on
• Hang on like grim death and hang on for grim death
• Hang Out To Dry - Definition & Examples
• Hangar vs. hanger
• Hangdog
• Hanged vs. Hung - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Hangry - Origin, Meaning & Definition
• Hanker vs hunker
• Hanky-panky
• Happenstance - Usage & Meaning
• Happy median or happy medium
• Harbinger
• Harbor vs. harbour
• Hardy vs. hearty
• Hark, harken, and hearken
• Harridan and harpy
• Hart vs. Heart - Difference in Meaning & Spelling
• Has seen better days
• Hash out, thrash out
• Hashtag
• Haste makes waste
• Hatemonger and hate-mongering
• Hats Off (to You) - Idiom & Meaning In English
• Haughty vs hottie
• Have a bee in one's bonnet
• Have a beef
• Have a cow and have kittens
• Have a ringside seat
• Have a target on one's back
• Have an ax to grind
• Have one's ears pinned back vs pin one's ears back
• Have one's work cut out
• Have someone's number and I've got your number
• Have the last laugh
• Have your cake and eat it too
• Having a Field Day - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Hawk vs. hock
• Hay vs hey
• Haymaker
• He who hesitates is lost
• He'd vs heed
• Head on the chopping block and on the chopping block
• Head Over Heels - Origin & Meaning
• Head someone off at the pass and cut someone off at the pass
• Heads or tails and can't make heads or tails
• Heads will roll
• Heads-Up - Usage, Meaning & Definition
• Headwind
• Heal vs. heel (and bring to heel)
• Healthcare vs. Health Care - Which One is It?
• Healthful vs. healthy
• Hear through the grapevine, bush telegraph or jungle telegraph
• Hear vs listen
• Hear vs. Here - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• Heard vs herd
• Heartthrob
• Heavens to Murgatroyd Idiom Definition
• Heavy-handed
• Hector
• Hedge one's bets
• Heebie-jeebies
• Heel, heal and he'll
• Heighth
• Heir vs err
• Helicopter parent and lawnmower parent
• Hell for leather and hell-bent
• Helpless vs hapless
• Helter skelter or helter-skelter
• Hem and haw or hum and haw
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• Hence - Usage, Definition & Examples
• Henpeck
• Herbivorous vs herbaceous
• Heretofore or hitherto
• Heroin vs. heroine
• Heterogeneous vs. heterogenous
• Heterometric
• Hew vs. hue
• Heyday
• Hi vs. High - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
• Hieroglyph vs hierograph
• High five
• High on the hog
• High-handed
• Highbrow and lowbrow
• Higher vs hire
• Highfalutin
• Hijinks or high jinks
• Himself vs hisself
• Hindsight is 20/20 and 20/20 hindsight
• Hinky
• Hippocratic vs hypocritical
• Hippogriff or griffin
• Hippopotami, hippopotamuses, hippos
• Historic vs. Historical - Usage and Examples
• Hit a brick wall vs hit the wall
• Hit it off
• Hit Pay Dirt - Origin & Meaning
• Hit the bricks
• Hit the deck
• Hit the Ground Running - Origin & Meaning
• Hit the hay and hit the sack
• Hive mind
• Hoar vs. Whore
• Hoard vs. horde
• Hoarse vs horse
• Hoax
• Hobo, tramp, bum, or gutter punk
• Hobson's choice
• Hocus-pocus
• Hodgepodge vs hotchpotch
• Hogwash - Origin & Definition
• Hokey-pokey, hokey-cokey and hokey-tokey
• Hold at bay and keep at bay
• Hold My Beer - Origin, Meaning & Usage
• Hold someone's feet to the fire
• Hold sway
• Hold the fort and hold down the fort
• Hold Your Horses - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Hole vs whole
• Holey vs. holy
• Holier-than-thou
• Holly vs holy
• Holy vs. Wholly vs. Wholey - Difference & Meaning
• Home In Vs Hone In - Meaning And When To Use Them
• Home in vs horn in
• Home school vs. homeschool (vs. home-school)
• Homely vs. homey
• Homily vs. Sermon - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Homo sapiens
• Homogenous vs. homogeneous
• Homonyms - Definition, Examples and Worksheet
• Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs - Differences and Examples
• Honcho
• Honesty is the best policy
• Honor among thieves and no honor among thieves
• Honor vs. Honour - Difference & Meaning
• Hoodwink
• Hoopla
• Hoosegow - Origin & Meaning
• Hoover vs. vacuum
• Hooves or hoofs
• Hop, skip, and a jump
• Hope or hopes
• Hoping vs hopping
• Horn of plenty and cornucopia
• Horse of a different color and horse of another color
• Horsey, horsy, horsie
• Horticulturist vs arborist
• Hosanna
• Hot button
• Hot Mess - Meaning & Definition
• Hot potato
• Hot spot or hotspot
• Hot to Trot - Origin & Meaning
• Houndstooth
• Hour vs our
• House of cards
• House vs house
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• How's it going
• Hubris
• Hullabaloo
• Human vs humane
• Humblebrag
• Humdinger
• Humongous
• Humor VS Humour
• Hump Day - Origin & Meaning
• Humus vs. hummus
• Hunker down
• Hunky-dory
• Hunt-and-peck
• Hunter-gatherer
• Hurrah, hooray, hurray
• Hurtle vs. Hurdle - Difference & Definition
• Hush money
• Hush puppy, hushpuppy or hush-puppy
• Hustle and side hustle
• Hybrid vs highbred
• Hygge
• Hymn vs him
• Hyper- vs hypo-
• Hyperbole
• Hyphen Rules And Usage With Examples
• I can live with that
• I or me
• I rest my case
• I wasn’t born yesterday
• I.e vs. E.g - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• I’ll eat my hat
• Ibid vs idem
• Ice tea vs. iced tea
• Icing on the Cake - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Iconoclast vs heretic
• Idea vs. Ideal - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Ideation vs idea
• Identifying Subjects and Predicates With Printable Worksheets
• Ideogram
• Ides of March
• Idiom vs colloquialism
• Idiot savant or savant syndrome
• Idle Hands Are the Devil's Workshop or Playground Saying
• Idle, idol, idyll
• If it ain't broke don't fix it
• If need be or if needs be
• If the shoe fits and if the cap fits
• If vs whether
• If you can't beat them, join them
• If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen
• If you will
• Ignoramus
• Ignorance is bliss
• Ilk
• Illegible vs. unreadable
• Imaginary or imaginative
• Imagism
• Imbibe vs imbue
• Imbroglio
• IMHO
• Imitate vs emulate
• Imitate vs intimate
• Imitate vs intimidate
• Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
• Immaculate Conception vs. virgin birth
• Immolate vs emulate
• Immunity vs. impunity
• Impactful
• Impair vs impede
• Impassable vs. impassible
• Impassive vs. passive
• Impecunious and pecunious
• Impending vs. pending
• Imperial vs empirical
• Imperial vs. Empyreal
• Impetus vs emphasis
• Impinge vs. infringe
• Implosion vs explosion
• Imply vs. infer
• Imposter vs. impostor
• Impractical vs impracticable
• Imprecation vs implication
• Impromptu or improvised
• Improvise vs. Improvize - Which Is Correct?
• Impudent vs imprudent
• Impugn vs. impute
• In a bind
• In a heartbeat
• In a Jiffy - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• In a manner of speaking
• In a nutshell
• In a pickle
• In a vacuum
• In any way, shape or form
• In clover
• In due course or in due time
• In Excess Of - Usage & Meaning
• In Fine Fettle - Origin & Meaning
• In Hot Water Meaning and Origin
• In kind
• In like Flynn
• In loco parentis
• In medias res
• In one ear and out the other
• In one's element
• In over one's head or over one's head
• In point of fact or in fact or as a matter of fact
• In situ
• In Spades - Origin & Meaning
• In tall cotton and in high cotton
• In Terms Of - Usage & Meaning
• In the affirmative
• In the ballpark and hit one out of the ballpark
• In the cards and on the cards
• In the course of
• In the doldrums
• In the hopper
• In the loop and out of the loop
• In the Midst of - Usage & Meaning
• In the midst vs in the mist
• In the Nick of Time - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• In the Offing - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• In the pink
• In the Process of - Meaning & Definition
• In the red and in the black
• In the throes of
• In The Weeds
• In This Day in Age or Day and Age - Usage & Meaning
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• In vitro
• Inalienable vs. unalienable
• Inane vs insane
• Incarnation vs incarceration
• Incase or encase
• Incense vs incense
• Incent vs. Incentivize vs. Incentivise - Meaning & Difference
• Incidence vs. incidents
• Incipient or inchoate
• Incipient vs. insipient (vs. insipid)
• Incite vs insight
• Inclement vs. Inclimate
• Include, exclude or occlude
• Incommunicado
• Incomparable vs. uncomparable
• Incomplete comparison
• Incomprehensive or incomprehensible
• Incredible vs. incredulous
• Incubus, succubus
• Indefatigable and defatigable
• Indefinite Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Indeterminate vs indeterminable
• Indexes or Indices - The Plural Debate
• Indian corn
• Indian giver
• Indian Summer - Origin & Definition
• Indict vs indite
• Indirect Questions - Examples & Worksheet
• Indirect Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Indiscriminate vs undiscriminating
• Indolence vs insolence
• Indubitably vs undoubtedly
• Inequality vs. inequity
• Inequity vs. iniquity
• Inexplicable vs. unexplainable
• Infect vs. infest
• Infectious vs contagious
• Inference vs interference
• Infinitive of Purpose - Examples & Worksheet
• Infinitives - Uses, Definition & Examples
• Inflict vs inflect
• Infomercial
• Infraction vs infarction
• Infuse vs suffuse
• Ingenious vs. ingenuous
• Ingrate vs ingratiate
• Inhabit vs habituate
• Inherent vs inherit
• Inn vs. In
• Innate vs enate
• Innocuous vs inoculate
• Inpatient or outpatient
• Inroad vs inroads
• Inside baseball
• Inside track
• Insidious vs invidious
• Insofar (in so far)
• Insolent vs insolvent
• Installation vs. installment
• Installment vs. Instalment
• Instantly vs. instantaneously
• Instigate vs incite
• Instigate vs investigate
• Instill vs install
• Instinctive vs. instinctual
• Intact
• Intellectual property
• Inter-, intra-
• Intercourse - Meaning & Definition
• Interment vs. internment
• Intermural, intramural and extramural
• Intern vs inter
• Internal vs eternal
• Internal vs infernal
• Internet of things
• Interpretative vs. interpretive
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• Intimate vs intimate
• Inure vs enure
• Invalid vs invalid
• Invaluable vs. Valuable - What's the Difference?
• Invention vs intervention
• Inventive vs innovative
• Inversion Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Inversion in English Grammar - Examples & Worksheet
• Inviolable vs inviolate
• Invision or Envision - Difference & Definition
• Invite (as a noun)
• Invoke vs. Evoke - What's the Difference?
• Ipso Facto - Meaning & Examples
• Irk
• Ironic
• Ironical - Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Irregular plural nouns
• Irregular Verbs - Uses, Definition & Examples
• Irregular Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Irregular Verbs List (with Printable PDF)
• Is 'God' Capitalized? - Explanation & Examples
• Is "President" Capitalized?
• Is "Vice President" Capitalized And Hyphenated?
• Is Costed a Word? What is the Past Tense of Cost?
• Is Earth Capitalized? - Rules & List of Examples
• Is GIF a Word? - Meaning & Spelling
• Is Grammarly Cheating? Should Students Use It?
• Is Grammarly Safe and Secure? Can it be Trusted?
• Is Grammarly's Plagiarism Checker Any Good? Is it Accurate?
• Is Irregardless a Word? What Does it Mean?
• Is it Ascent or Assent - What's the Difference?
• Is it Flier or Flyer? What's the Difference?
• Is It God Speed or Godspeed? - Meaning & Usage
• Is It Junky or Junkie? - Meaning & Definition
• Is There a Comma Before or After "Please"?
• Isle or Aisle - Usage, Difference & Meaning
• Isometric
• It ain't over till the fat lady sings
• It And There - Usage, Difference & Worksheet
• It Is What It Is - Origin & Meaning
• It Takes a Village - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• It takes one to know one
• It Takes Two to Tango - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• It's curtains for you
• It's Greek to me and it's all Greek to me
• It's not rocket science
• It's the thought that counts
• It’s a wash
• Italics (when to italicize)
• Itchy feet
• Iteration
• Its vs It's - What's the Difference? (Worksheet Included)
• Ivory Tower - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Ivy League
• Jack-in-the-box
• Jack-o’-lantern and Halloween lantern
• Jackalope
• Jackanapes
• Jaded
• Jalousie window vs louvre window
• Jam vs. jamb
• Janus-faced
• Jaundiced eye
• Jaywalking
• Je Ne Sais Quoi (or Jenesequa) - Meaning In English
• Jealousy vs envy
• Jeremiad
• Jersey vs guernsey
• Jet Lag - Meaning & Definition
• Jewel vs joule
• Jewelry vs. jewellery
• Jig vs gig
• Jiggery-pokery
• Jingle vs jangle
• Jingoism
• Jinx - Origin, Meaning & Examples
• Jitney
• John Doe, Joe Bloggs and Fred Nerk
• John Hancock and John Henry
• Johnny on the Spot - Origin & Meaning
• Johnny-come-lately
• Joie de vivre
• Join the club
• Joined at the hip and attached at the hip
• Jolly Roger
• Joshing - Origin & Meaning
• Jot or tittle
• Joyful and joyous
• Judgement vs. Judgment - What's the Difference?
• Judicial vs. judicious
• Juggernaut
• Jump or climb on the bandwagon
• Jump ship
• Jump the Gun - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Jump the shark
• Jump Through Hoops - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Jump-start
• Junction vs. juncture
• Junkyard dog
• Jury-rig, jerry-rig, jerry-built
• Just deserts vs. just desserts
• Juvenile vs juvenal
• Juxtapose
• K-pop
• Kafkaesque
• Kakistocracy
• Kaleidoscope - Meaning, Spelling & Symbolism
• Kangaroo court
• Kaput
• Katy bar the door
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Keep an ear to the ground
• Keep it under your hat
• Keep Me Posted - Origin & Meaning
• Keep on a short leash
• Keep one's head above water
• Keep under wraps
• Keep your chin up
• Keep your eyes peeled and keep your eyes skinned
• Keep your shirt on and keep your hair on
• Keeping up with the Joneses
• Kerfuffle vs brouhaha
• Kernel vs. Colonel
• Keyed up
• Kibosh
• Kick over the traces
• Kick the can down the road
• Kick-Start, Kickstart or Kick Start - Meaning & Definition
• Kickoff vs. Kick-off vs. Kick Off
• Kill with kindness
• Kin vs ken
• King of the hill and king of the castle
• King's ransom
• King's X
• Kiss of death
• Kiss off
• Kiss someone’s ring
• Kleenex vs tissue
• Klutz
• Knap vs. Nap
• Knave vs nave
• Knee-high to a grasshopper
• Knee-jerk, kneejerk
• Knee-slapper
• Kneeled vs knelt
• Knew or New - Homophones & Definition
• Knickers vs nickers
• Knight in shining armor
• Knight vs. Night - Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
• Knighted vs benighted
• Knit vs nit
• Knit vs. knitted
• Knob vs nob
• Knock on wood and touch wood
• Knock one for six
• Knock one over with a feather and knock one down with a feather
• Knock one's socks off
• Knock them dead or knock 'em dead
• Knock up
• Knock Yourself Out - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Knocked for a loop and thrown for a loop
• Knot, nought, naught or not
• Know vs. No - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
• Know where the bodies are buried
• Know which side your bread is buttered on
• Knowadays Proofreading Course Review: Is It Worth It?
• Knowadays Proofreading Course vs. Proofread Anywhere
• Knuckle down and buckle down
• Knuckle sandwich
• Knuckle under vs knuckle down
• Kodak moment
• Kowtow
• Kryptonite
• Kudos - Origin, Usage & Meaning
• L’état, C’est Moi - Origin & Meaning in English
• La Dolce Vita - Origin & Meaning in English
• Labeled vs. labelled
• Labor vs. labour
• Lackadaisical
• Ladybug and ladybird
• Lagniappe
• Laid vs lade
• Lain vs lane
• Lair vs layer
• Laird vs lord
• Laissez-faire
• Lamb vs lam
• Lambast vs. lambaste
• Lambaste
• Lame duck
• Land of Milk and Honey - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Land on one's feet
• Landlubber
• Landslide
• Languagetool vs. Grammarly
• Lap of Luxury - Origin & Meaning
• Laps vs lapse
• Lasagna vs. lasagne
• Lassitude, lethargy and languor
• Last Resort - Origin & Meaning
• Latchkey kid and latchkey child
• Later vs latter
• Lather vs lather
• Latitude vs longitude
• Latter vs ladder
• Laugh up one’s sleeve
• Laughing Stock - Usage, Meaning & Origin
• Laundry list
• Lava vs magma
• Lay an egg
• Lay it on thick
• Lay of the land or lie of the land
• Lay Out vs. Layout - Usage & Difference
• Lay vs. Lie - Usage, Difference & List of Examples
• Laze vs lase
• Lazy Susan
• Leach or Leech - What's the Difference?
• Lead vs. Lead - What's the Difference?
• Lead-pipe cinch
• Leak vs. Leek
• Lean vs. Lien
• Leaned or leant
• Leap of Faith - Origin & Meaning
• Leap year
• Leaped vs. leapt
• Learn the ropes and know the ropes
• Learned vs. learnt
• Leased vs least
• Leave in the lurch
• Leave no stone unturned
• Leave someone holding the bag
• Led vs Lead - What's the Difference?
• Lede vs. Lead - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Leery vs leary
• Leet, leetspeak and 1337
• Leftover vs. left over
• Legal vs legit
• Legislator vs legislature
• Legitimate vs legitimitize
• Lend vs. loan
• Lended vs. lent
• Lentil vs. Lintel
• Leotard vs tights
• Lesser or lessor
• Lest
• Let Bygones Be Bygones - Meaning and Examples
• Let one's guard down and drop one's guard
• Let one's hair down
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Lets vs. Let's - What's The Difference?
• Letter Names in the English Alphabet and How to Spell Them
• Levee vs. levy
• Level playing field and level the playing field
• Liable vs libel
• Liar vs. Lyre
• Licence or License - Meaning & Spelling
• Lick one's wounds
• Licker vs liquor
• Lickety-split
• Licorice vs. liquorice
• Lie or lye
• Lier or Liar - Meaning & Spelling
• Lieu vs. Loo
• Lieutenant
• Lifetime or life time
• Light vs. lite
• Lightbulb moment
• Lighted vs. lit
• Lightening vs. lightning
• Lightning rod
• Likable vs. likeable
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Like a bump on a log
• Like clockwork and as regular as clockwork
• Like gangbusters
• Like oil and water
• Like pulling teeth
• Like taking candy from a baby
• Lilliputian
• Limbo
• Limelight vs spotlight
• Linchpin vs. lynchpin
• Line Editing vs. Copy Editing - What's the Difference?
• Linking Verbs - List, Examples & Worksheet
• Linking Verbs vs. Helping Verbs - Difference & Examples
• Linking Words - Full List, Examples & Worksheet
• Linking Words of Contrast - List of Examples & Worksheet
• Links vs lynx
• Lion's share
• Lionize and lionise
• Lip-sync and lip-synch
• Liquor vs liqueur
• List of 50+ English Suffixes With Examples & Worksheet
• Listserv
• Liter or litre vs litter
• Literally vs. Figuratively - What's the Difference?
• Litmus test
• Litre or Liter - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• Little to No or Little to None
• Live and let live
• Live off the fat of the land
• Live vs live
• Liveable or livable
• Living the Dream - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Living The Life Of Riley (Reilly)
• Llama vs. Lama
• Lo and Behold or Low and Behold
• Load vs lode
• Loaded for bear
• Loafs or loaves
• Loan vs lone
• Loath vs. loathe (vs. loth)
• Locavore
• Loch vs lock
• Lock out vs lockout
• Lock, stock and barrel
• Lockdown
• Locks vs lox
• Lodestar - Meaning & Definition
• Log In vs. Login
• Log On or Log In - What's the Difference?
• Logo
• Lone Wolf - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Lonely vs. lonesome
• Long in the tooth
• Long johns vs union suit and combination suit
• Long pig
• Longetivity vs. longevity
• Look before you leap
• Look out vs. lookout (vs. look-out)
• Looking over one’s shoulder
• Looks good on paper
• Loonie, Loony, or Looney - What's the Difference?
• Loop de loop or loop the loop
• Loop vs loupe
• Loose vs. Lose - Difference & Meaning
• Loot vs lute
• Lorem Ipsum
• Lorry
• Lose face and save face
• Lose one's marbles
• Lose one's shirt
• Lose the plot
• Lost in the shuffle
• Lothario
• Lots of vs a lot of
• Lovable vs. loveable
• Love is blind
• Love me, love my dog
• Lovers' lane
• Low man on the totem pole
• Low-Hanging Fruit - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Low-key and lowkey
• Low, lo or lowe
• Lower the boom
• Lucid vs lucent
• Luck of the draw
• Luddite
• Lukewarm
• Lumber vs lumbar
• Luminary vs luminaria
• Lustful vs. lusty
• Luxuriant vs. luxurious
• Lyme Disease vs. Lime Disease
• Macabre
• Macaron vs. macaroon
• MacGyver
• Mach vs mock
• Machiavellian
• Machine gun vs. machine-gun
• Macintosh, mackintosh, McIntosh
• Mad as a hatter
• Mad as a wet hen and mad as a hornet
• Maddening vs. madding
• Made vs maid
• Magic bullet and silver bullet
• Magical realism
• Magnate vs. magnet
• Magnum opus
• Mail vs male
• Main, mane and Maine
• Maize vs maze
• Make a clean breast of it and come clean
• Make do vs. make due
• Make Ends Meet or Make Both Ends Meet - Idiom & Meaning
• Make hay
• Make no bones about it
• Make or break and make or mar
• Make or Do - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• Makeup, make-up or make up
• Malarkey
• Maleficent vs. malevolent
• Mall vs. Maul
• Malware vs ransomware
• Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone - Origin & Meaning
• Man of the cloth
• Man's best friend
• Maneuver vs. manoeuvre
• Manga vs anime
• Manic vs maniac
• Mannequin, Manikin, or Manakin
• Manner vs. manor
• Manspreading
• Mantel vs. mantle
• Many happy returns
• Mare vs mayor
• Marginalize or marginalise vs minimize or minimise
• Marinade vs. marinate
• Mark my words
• Mark vs marque
• Marquee vs. Marquis
• Marry vs. merry
• Marsala vs masala
• Marshal vs. martial
• Martin vs marten
• Mask vs. Masque
• Massage vs message
• Masterful vs. masterly
• Materiel vs. material
• Math or Maths - Which One to Use?
• Matriculate vs graduate
• Matrix
• Matter of fact or matter-of-fact
• Matter of Fact vs. Fact of the Matter
• Maul vs. mull
• Maundy Thursday
• Maverick
• Maxima vs. maximums
• Maximise or Maximize
• May be or maybe
• Mayhap or mishap or snafu
• Mayonnaise vs. mayonaise
• Me vs. Mi
• Meager vs Meagre - Definition & Examples
• Mealy-mouthed
• Mean vs mien
• Meaning of Binomials in English - With Examples
• Means
• Meat, meet or mete
• Medal, meddle, metal, mettle
• Media vs. mediums
• Mediator vs. moderator
• Meeple
• Melted vs. molten
• Melting pot
• Meme
• Memento Mori or Momento Mori - Origin & Meaning in English
• Men in white coats
• Mendacity vs mendicity
• Mensch
• Meretricious vs meritorious
• Meritorious vs maritorious
• Merry Christmas vs Happy Christmas
• Meta
• Metaphor
• Metaphoric vs. Metaphorical - What's the Difference?
• Meter vs. metre
• Methinks
• Mexican standoff
• MIA
• Mic Drop - Origin, Meaning & Sentence Examples
• Mic vs. mike
• Mice vs. mouses
• Mickey Finn and mickey
• Micro- vs macro-
• Microaggression
• Microfinance, microcredit and microloan
• Microsoft Editor vs. Grammarly - Which is Better?
• Might as Well - Usage & Meaning
• Might vs mite
• Milieu
• Militate or mitigate
• Millennia vs millenniums
• Milquetoast vs milktoast
• Mince vs mints
• Mince words
• Mind over matter
• Mind vs mined
• Miner vs minor
• Minima vs. minimums
• Minimize vs minimise
• Minimum vs minimal
• Mint condition
• Minuet vs minute
• Minuscule vs. miniscule
• Minute VS Minute
• Minutia, minutiae
• Minx vs. Mink - What's the Difference?
• Mirandize
• Mischievous vs. mischievious
• Misery Loves Company - Meaning & Origin
• Misfeasance vs. Malfeasance vs. Nonfeasance
• Misinformed vs. uninformed
• Misnomer
• Misogyny and misandry
• Missed vs mist
• Misspell vs. Mispell - Meaning & Correct Spelling
• Mixed bag
• Mixtape
• Moat vs mote
• Mob justice and mob rule
• Mob or demob
• Mobile, mobile, or Mobile
• Mobilize vs mobilise
• Modal Verbs - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Modal Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Modal Verbs of Ability - Examples & Worksheet
• Modal Verbs of Obligation - Examples & Worksheet
• Modals of Possibility - List of Examples & Worksheet
• Mode vs mowed
• Modeling vs. modelling
• Modern
• Modus operandi (m.o, MO)
• Mogul
• Mojo
• Mold vs. Mould - Meaning & Usage Examples
• Mollusc vs. mollusk
• Mollycoddle
• Molotov cocktail
• Mom vs mom
• Momager
• Momentarily - Usage & Meaning
• Monday morning quarterback and armchair quarterback
• Monetize vs demonetize
• Money is no object
• Money-grabbing vs. money-grubbing
• Monied vs. Moneyed
• Monkey business
• Monkey on one's back
• Montage
• Moonlight
• Moonshine
• Moose vs. mooses
• Moose vs. Mousse
• Moot vs. mute
• Mop the floor with someone and wipe the floor with someone
• Moral vs morale
• Morality vs mortality
• Moratorium
• Morays vs. mores
• Morbid vs moribund
• More bang for one's buck and bigger bang for one's buck
• More Than One Way To Skin A Cat
• More vs moor
• Moreso
• Morning vs. Mourning - Meaning, Spelling & Difference
• Mortar board
• Mothball
• Mother lode
• Mother of all and granddaddy of all
• Motherhood and apple pie and mom and apple pie
• Motive vs motif
• Mouse and CAT
• Moustache vs. mustache (vs. mustachio)
• Mouthfuls
• Movable feast
• Movable vs. moveable
• Move heaven and earth
• Move the goalposts and shift the goalposts
• Move the needle
• Movers and shakers
• Mowed vs. mown
• Mr., Mrs., Ms. and Miss
• Much or Many - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Much vaunted
• Muchly
• Muckamuck, mucky-muck and muckety-muck
• Muckraking
• Mucous vs. mucus
• Muddy the waters
• Mudslinging
• Muggle - Origin & Meaning
• Mulligan
• Multitask - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Mum's the Word - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Mumbo Jumbo - Origin & Meaning
• Murderers' row
• Murphy's Law, Sod's Law and Finagle's Law
• Muscle vs mussel
• Must of (must've)
• Mustard vs mustered
• Mutually assured destruction or mutual assured destruction
• Mutually Exclusive - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• My cup runneth over
• My dogs are barking
• My way or the highway
• Myriad
• Nail-biter
• Naked as a jaybird
• Namby-pamby
• Name-Calling - Definition & Examples
• Nano-
• Nary a
• Nascent
• Nativity
• Naught vs. nought
• Nauseating vs. nauseous
• Naval vs. navel
• Navel-gazing
• Nay, Ney, or Neigh - Difference & Meaning
• Ne'er-do-well
• Neandertal vs. neanderthal
• Neat as a pin
• Nebbish
• Nebula vs nebulous
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Neck and Neck Meaning and Examples
• Neck of the woods
• Necktie party
• Necropsy and autopsy
• Necrosis
• Need vs knead
• Need vs. Kneed
• Needle vs nettle
• Nefarious
• Negative prefixes
• Neighbor or Neighbour - Which Spelling Is Correct?
• Neither or Either - What's the Difference?
• Nemesis
• Neologism
• Nepotism
• Nerd, Geek, or Dork - What's the Difference?
• Nest egg
• Net neutrality
• Neutralise vs neutralize
• Never mind vs nevermind
• Nevertheless vs. Nonetheless - Difference & Definition
• New vs. Gnu
• New York Minute - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Newbie vs noob or n00b
• Newfangled
• News
• NGO vs GMO
• Nib vs nub
• Nice vs. Gneiss
• Nickel-and-Dime - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Nickname
• Nicks vs. Nix
• Niggle
• Night owl or early bird
• Nimby, nimbyism
• Nimrod
• Nip in the Bud - Origin & Meaning
• Nitty-gritty
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
• No guts, no glory
• No Harm, No Foul - Meaning & Origin
• No holds barred
• No horse in the race and no dog in the fight
• No ifs, ands, or buts
• No Love Lost - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• No man is an island
• No Man's Land - Definition & Meaning
• No news is good news
• No One, Noone or No-one - Difference & Examples
• No pain, no gain vs no pain, no game
• No two ways about it
• No vs. Not - Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
• No-brainer
• Noble vs ignoble
• Noblesse oblige
• Nock vs. Knock
• Nocturnal vs diurnal
• Noel or nowel
• Noisome vs noisy
• Nomenclature
• Nominative or Subjective Case With Examples
• Non compos mentis
• Non sequitur
• Non-finite Verbs - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• None are or none is
• None of Your Beeswax or Mind Your Beeswax - Origin & Meaning
• Nonplussed
• Nonprofit vs. not-for-profit (vs. non-profit)
• Nonstarter
• Normalcy vs. normality
• Nose vs. Knows
• Nosebleed section
• Nosy Parker
• Not all it's cracked up to be
• Not by a long shot and not by a long chalk
• Not hardly
• Not one’s cup of tea
• Not playing with a full deck
• Not un-
• Not worth a plugged nickel and not worth a plug nickel
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Nothing to sneeze at and not to be sneezed at
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Notwithstanding
• Noun Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Nouns as adjectives
• Nowadays, anymore, or any more
• Noxious vs obnoxious
• Nuclear family and extended family
• Number Sign - Rules and Examples
• Number vs number
• Number vs numeral
• Numinous vs luminous
• Nun vs. None
• Nunchucks
• Nutriment or nutrition
• O vs. Oh - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Oar, ore and or
• Oases
• Object lesson
• Object vs object
• Objects in Grammar - How to Identify (With Examples)
• Obliged vs. obligated
• Oblique
• Obsequious
• Observance vs. observation
• Obsolescent vs. obsolete
• Obstreperous
• Ocher or ochre vs okra
• Ocher vs. ochre
• Octopuses vs. Octopi - What Is the Plural of Octopus?
• Ode vs owed
• Odious vs odorous
• Odor or Odour - Meaning, Difference & Spelling
• Oeuvre - Usage & Meaning in English
• Off Of - Usage & Meaning
• Off one’s rocker and off one’s trolley
• Off the cuff
• Off the grid or off-grid
• Off the Hook - Origin & Meaning
• Off the rack and off the peg
• Off the record vs not for attribution
• Off The Wagon and On The Wagon - Meaning & Examples
• Off the wall
• Off-kilter and out of kilter
• Offal vs. Awful
• Offence vs. offense
• Offhand
• Oftentimes
• Oh vs owe
• Oh Well - Usage & Meaning
• Ok vs. Okay - Usage & Difference
• Old as Methuselah
• Old chestnut
• Old Glory
• Old Habits Die Hard - Origin & Meaning
• Old Hat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Old wives' tale vs old wise tale
• Old-fashioned or old fashion
• Oldie But Goodie - Origin & Meaning
• Olfactory vs old factory
• Oligarchy vs monarchy
• Olive branch
• Ombré ombre or hombre
• Omelet vs. omelette
• Omnibus vs ombudsman
• On a lark
• On a shoestring and shoestring budget
• On a tear
• On a wing and a prayer
• On Accident or By Accident - Usage & Examples
• On cloud nine
• On fleek
• On one's high horse
• On one’s last legs
• On pins and needles
• On steroids
• On tenterhooks
• On the back burner
• On the back foot
• On the Ball - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• On the bubble
• On the Clock - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• On the contrary
• On the Fence - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• On the fly
• On the fritz
• On the House - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• On the lam
• On the q.t.
• On the radar, off the radar, under the radar, below the radar, and above the radar
• On the rocks
• On the ropes
• On the Same Page - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• On the spur of the moment
• On the straight and narrow
• On the stump and stump speech
• On the up and up
• On the wrong foot and on the right foot
• On your mark, get set, go! and ready, set, go!
• Onboard vs. on board
• Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Once in a blue moon
• Once in a lifetime vs once-in-a-lifetime
• One and the same, one in the same
• One Fell Swoop - Origin & Meaning
• One For the Books - Origin & Meaning
• One for the money, two for the show
• One good turn deserves another
• One hand washes the other
• One-hit wonder
• One-Horse Town - Meaning & Origin
• One-size-fits-all
• One-time vs. onetime
• One-trick pony
• One-upmanship
• One's eyes are bigger than one's stomach
• One's name is mud
• Oneself vs. One's Self - Definitions and Usage
• Online vs. on-line
• Onomatopoeia
• Onus
• Oompa Loompa
• Op-ed
• Open and shut case
• Open Class vs Closed Class Words - Meaning & Examples
• Open secret
• Operationalise or operationalize
• Opossum vs. possum
• Oppress, repress, suppress
• Oracle vs auricle
• Oral vs. verbal
• Order of Adjectives - Rules, Chart & Worksheet
• Order of Adjectives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Ordinance vs. ordnance
• Organise vs. organize
• Orientate
• Origin or origins
• Ornery - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Orthopedic vs. orthopaedic
• Other fish to fry and bigger fish to fry
• Ought vs aught
• Ours is not to reason why; ours is but to do and die
• Ouster
• Out and out
• Out of left field
• Out of one's league
• Out of Pocket - Meaning, Origin, & Definition
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Usage & Meaning
• Out of Sorts - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Out of the blocks and off the blocks
• Out of the Blue - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Out of the blue vs out of the woodwork
• Out of the frying pan and into the fire
• Out of the woods
• Out of whole cloth
• Outset vs onset
• Outside of
• Outwrite vs Grammarly
• Over a Barrel - Origin & Meaning
• Over the hump
• Over the Top - Meaning & Origin
• Over- and under- (prefixes)
• Overbilled vs overbuild
• Overdo vs. overdue
• Overlook vs look over
• Overly
• Overnight vs. over night
• Overrate vs overate
• Oversee vs overlook
• Oversees vs overseas
• Overtake, take over and takeover
• Overthink vs think over
• Overtime vs over time
• Overtones vs. undertones
• Own up
• Oxymorons: A Collection of Contradictory Words and Phrases
• p.d.q.
• Packed vs pact
• Packs vs pax
• Paddy wagon
• Paean, paeon, peon
• Pail vs pale
• Pain vs pane
• Paint the town red and paint the town
• Pair vs. pare vs. pear
• Pajamas vs. pyjamas
• Palate, palette, pallet
• Pale in comparison
• Palindrome (poetry)
• Pall vs. pallor
• Palpable vs palatable
• Pan Out - Origin & Meaning
• Pander vs ponder
• Panhandle
• Paper tiger
• Paper-thin
• Par Excellence - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Par for the course
• Parade float
• Paralympics
• Paralyse vs. paralyze
• Parameter vs perimeter
• Paramount vs. tantamount
• Paraphernalia
• Pardon my French and excuse my French
• Parentheses (Round Bracket) Use With Examples
• Parentheses or Parenthesis - What's the Difference?
• Parenthetical Phrases - Definition & Examples
• Pariah vs piranha
• Parish vs perish
• Parlay vs. parley
• Parlor or parlour
• Parody vs parity
• Parol vs parole
• Parricide vs. patricide
• Parsimony
• Part and parcel
• Participial prepositions
• Participle Clauses - Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
• Parting shot
• Pass muster
• Pass muster vs pass mustard
• Pass the torch and hand on the torch
• Pass with flying colors
• Passable or passible
• Passed vs. past
• Passerbys or passersby
• Passing strange
• Passive Voice - Usage, Misuses & Worksheet
• Passive Voice Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Passive vs. Active Voice - Difference, Examples & Worksheet
• Past Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
• Past Continuous Tense Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Past master
• Past Participle Adjectives - Uses & Examples
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses & Examples
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Past Perfect Tense - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Past Perfect Tense Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Exercises
• Past Simple Tense Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Paste vs paced
• Pasteurize vs pasteurise
• Pastime vs past time
• Pasty vs pasty
• Path of least resistance and line of least resistance.
• Pathetic vs apathetic
• Patience vs. Patients - Usage, Meaning & Spelling
• Patient zero
• Patois
• Patriotism vs nationalism
• Patron vs. Benefactor - Difference & Definition
• Patsy
• Patty vs paddy
• Paucity - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
• Pause vs paws
• Pay It Forward - Meaning, Synonyms & Examples
• Pay lip service
• Pay one's dues
• Pay one's respects
• Pay the Piper - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Pay through the nose
• Payback vs. pay back
• Payed vs. Paid - Definition, Difference & Examples
• Pea vs pee
• Peace of mind, piece of (one's) mind
• Peaceable vs. peaceful
• Peak vs. peek vs. pique
• Peal vs. peel
• Pearls of wisdom
• Peccadillo
• Pecking Order - Origin & Meaning
• Pedal vs. peddle vs. petal
• Pediatric or paediatric
• Pediment vs impediment
• Peeping Tom
• Peer vs pier
• Pejorative
• Pell-mell
• Penal vs. penile
• Penance vs pittance
• Penchant vs pension
• Pendant vs. Pendent - Meaning & Difference
• Penny for your thoughts
• Penny wise and pound foolish
• Pentagon
• Pentimento vs pimento or pimiento
• Penultimate
• People vs. persons
• People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
• Peplum vs pablum
• Per diem
• Per Se or Per Say - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Per vs purr
• Percent vs. per cent
• Peremptory vs pre-emptory
• Perfect Storm - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Perfunctory vs peremptory
• Period Punctuation Rules and Examples
• Periodic vs. Periodical - Origin, Usage and Examples
• Peripatetic
• Perjury
• Perk vs perq
• Permit vs permit
• Pernickety vs. persnickety
• Perpetrate vs perpetuate
• Perquisite vs. prerequisite (vs. requisite)
• Persecute vs. prosecute
• Persona non grata
• Personal vs personable
• Personal vs personnel
• Personality vs personage vs persona
• Personification vs anthropomorphism
• Perspective vs. prospective
• Persuade vs dissuade
• Peruse
• Pervert vs subvert
• Pet vs. petted
• Petroglyph vs pictograph
• Pettifogger
• Petulant vs impetuous
• Pharaoh or Pharoah
• Phial vs. vial (vs. vile)
• Philly vs filly
• Phishing
• Phoning It In or Phone It In - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Phony vs. phoney
• Phosphate vs. Phosphorus vs. Phosphorous
• Phosphene
• Photo Bomb or Photobomber - Usage, Meaning & Origin
• Photo shoot vs. photoshoot
• Photogenic vs photographic
• Phrasal adjectives
• Phrasal prepositions
• Phrasal Verbs - List, Uses & Examples
• Phrasal Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Phrases
• Phubbing
• Pi and Pie - Spelling, Difference & Meaning
• Pica vs pika
• Picaresque vs. picturesque
• Picayune
• Picks, pix or pyx
• Pickup vs. Pick Up (vs. Pick-up)
• Pidgin vs pigeon
• Pie hole
• Pie in the sky
• Piebald, skewbald, pinto or paint
• Pièce de résistance
• Piece of cake
• Piece vs. Peace - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
• Piecemeal
• Pied Piper
• Pig in a poke
• Pigeon Hole - Origin & Meaning
• Piggy bank
• Piggyback
• Pin money
• Pincer vs. pincher
• Pink slip
• Pipe down and pipe up
• Pipe dream
• Piping hot
• Pipsqueak
• Pissant
• Pistol vs pistil
• Pit stop
• Pitch-perfect and picture-perfect
• Pitchblende
• Pitcher vs picture
• Pith vs pit
• Pithy
• Pixelated vs. pixilated
• Placate vs placket
• Place card vs placard
• Placebo vs nocebo
• Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
• Plain vs. plane
• Plainclothes
• Plaintiff vs defendant
• Plaintive vs plaintiff
• Plait vs plate
• Plan B - Idiom & Meaning
• Plantar vs planter
• Plaque vs plack
• Plateaus vs. plateaux
• Play By Ear - Meaning and Usage
• Play cat and mouse and play a game of cat and mouse
• Play fast and loose
• Play for keeps
• Play hardball
• Play one's cards right
• Play possum
• Play second fiddle
• Playing Russian roulette
• Playing with fire
• Playwright vs. playwrite
• Pleaded or Pled - Definition & Examples
• Please vs pleas
• Pleather and Naugahyde
• Plenary vs preliminary
• Plenitude vs. plentitude
• Plethora
• Pleural vs plural
• Plough vs. plow
• Plug-ugly vs pug-ugly
• Plum vs. plumb
• Plural Form - Is It Potatoes or Potatos or Tomatoes or Tomatos?
• Plural Nouns - Rules, List of Examples & Worksheet
• Plural of Platypus - Platypuses or Platypi?
• Plural Possessive Nouns - Rules and Examples
• Plurals of nouns ending in 'Y'
• Plutocrat vs autocrat
• Podcast
• Podium vs lectern
• Poetic justice
• Poetry vs prose
• Pogrom vs genocide
• Point in time
• Point of no return
• Point of view, standpoint, viewpoint
• Point-blank
• Poisoning the well
• Poisonous vs venomous
• Poker Face - Meaning & Definition
• Pole vs poll
• Polemic vs Polemical - What's the Difference?
• Polish vs. Polish - Meaning & Difference
• Polite company and polite society
• Politics
• Polka dot
• Pollyanna
• Poly- vs mono-
• Polygamy vs. polygyny vs. polyandry
• Pomp and circumstance
• Pompom vs. pompon (vs. pom-pom etc.)
• Ponderous
• Pony up
• Ponzi scheme and Ponzi game
• Poo vs. pooh
• Poof, pouf or pouffe
• Pooh-bah or poobah
• Pooh-poohed
• Pooped
• Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
• Poor-mouth vs bad-mouth
• Pop culture
• Pop one's clogs
• Pop the question
• Popinjay
• Poppycock
• Populace vs. populous
• Porch vs. Veranda vs. Verandah - Difference & Definition
• Pore over vs. pour over
• Pore, pour or poor
• Pork barrel
• Port vs. starboard
• Portend vs pretend
• Portend vs. portent
• Poseur vs poser
• Possessive Adjectives - Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns (+ Worksheet)
• Possessive Pronouns - List, Examples & Worksheet
• Possessive Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Possibility vs probability
• Post-truth
• Poster child
• Postpositive adjectives
• Potentiality
• Potluck
• Potter's field
• POTUS
• Pour cold water on and throw cold water on
• Powwow
• Pox
• Practicable vs. practical
• Practical joke
• Practice what you preach
• Practise or Practice - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Pragmatism
• Praise vs prays
• Praise vs preys
• Pram, baby carriage and baby buggy
• Prank call or crank call
• Pray vs. prey
• Preaching to the choir
• Prebiotic vs probiotic
• Precedence vs precedents
• Precipitate vs precipitous
• Precocious vs precious
• Predicate Nominative - Definition and Examples
• Predict vs predicate
• Predominantly vs. Predominately - Usage & Meaning
• Premier vs. premiere
• Preposition Collocations Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Preposition Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Preposition vs. proposition
• Prepositions of Place - Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• Prepositions of Place Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Prepositions of Time - Usage, Examples & Worksheet
• Prepositions of Time Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Prescient vs present
• Prescribe vs. proscribe
• Present company excepted vs present company accepted
• Present Continuous Tense - Uses & Examples
• Present Continuous Tense Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense Exercises (Printable PDF)
• Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous Tense Exercises
• Present Perfect Tense - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Present Perfect Tense Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Present Perfect vs Past Simple Tense (With Worksheet)
• Present Perfect vs. Past Simple Exercises (+ Printable PDF)
• Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense (With Worksheet)
• Present Simple and Future Simple Exercises (+ Printable PDF)
• Present Simple and Present Continuous Tense Exercises
• Present Simple Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
• Present Simple vs. Present Continuous Tense (With Worksheet)
• Present vs present
• Preserve vs persevere
• Press the flesh
• Presume vs. Assume - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Presumptive vs. presumptuous
• Pretence vs. pretense
• Pretentious vs portentous
• Preternatural vs supernatural
• Preventative vs. preventive
• Previous vs. prior
• Price gouging
• Pride comes before a fall and pride goeth before a fall
• Pride vs pried
• Prima Donna - Definition & Meaning
• Primal scream
• Prime the pump
• Primrose path
• Principal vs. Principle - Definition & Difference
• Prioritize vs prioritise
• Prise or Prize or Pries - What's the Difference?
• Privatization vs nationalization
• Privy
• Proactive
• Problematic vs. problematical
• Procede vs. Precede vs. Proceed - What's the Difference?
• Procrastinate
• Prodigal and prodigy
• Prodigious vs prolific
• Produce vs produce
• Profit vs prophet
• Progeny vs prodigy
• Program vs. Programme - Difference, Meaning & Examples
• Project vs project
• Proliferate vs profligate
• Prom and The Proms
• Promise vs premise
• Promulgate vs propagate
• Pronoun Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Proof by example
• Proof is in the pudding
• Proofread Anywhere Review - Is it Worth It?
• Proofreader Cover Letter Examples and Tips
• Proofreader Resume Examples and Tips
• Proofreading and Editing Examples
• Proofreading Certification - How To Get Certified
• Proofreading Checklist - 12 Essential Things To Look For
• Proofreading Rates - Per Word and Hourly With Charts
• Proofreading vs. Revising - What is the Difference?
• Prophecy vs. prophesy
• Propitiate vs expiate
• Proportional vs. proportionate
• Proprietary vs propitiatory
• Props
• Pros vs prose
• Prostate vs. prostrate
• Protagonist vs. Antagonist - Definitions and Examples
• Protean vs protein
• Protégé
• Proved vs. proven
• Proverb vs adage
• Proverbial vs figurative
• Providence vs province
• Province vs provenance
• Prowritingaid Review: Is It the Best Editing Program?
• Proximal vs proximate
• Psalter vs salter
• Pseudo
• Psych vs. psyche
• Psychopath vs. sociopath
• Pull one's punches
• Pull one's weight
• Pull out all the stops
• Pull rank
• Pull strings
• Pull the plug
• Pull the rug out from under
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• Pull Up Stakes or Up Sticks - Origin & Meaning
• Pulling one's leg
• Pullout, pull-out, pull out
• Punch list
• Punctilious vs punctual
• Pupal vs pupil
• Puppy love or poppy love
• Pure as the driven snow
• Purple prose
• Purpose vs porpoise
• Purposely vs. purposefully
• Push someone's buttons
• Push the envelope
• Pushing up daisies
• Pusillanimous
• Pussy vs pussy
• Put a damper on
• Put a flea in someone's ear vs put a bug in someone's ear
• Put on heirs or airs
• Put on hold
• Put on ice
• Put one's best foot forward
• Put one's cards on the table and lay one's cards on the table
• Put one's finger on something
• Put something on the map
• Put the cart before the horse
• Put though the wringer vs put through the ringer
• Put two and two together
• Put up or shut up
• Put up with
• Put up your dukes
• Put words in someone's mouth
• Putative vs punitive
• Putting vs putting
• Putty in one's hands
• Quaff vs coif
• Qualitative vs. qualitive
• Qualitative, quantitative
• Quality time
• Qualm vs calm
• Quantitative vs. quantitive
• Quantum
• Quarts vs quartz
• Quash vs. squash
• Quasi
• Quay
• Que sera sera
• Quelch vs. squelch
• Query vs inquiry
• Question Mark After "I Was Wondering" - Guide & Examples
• Question Mark and Quotation Marks - Usage & Examples
• Question Mark Grammar & Punctuation Rules
• Questions in English Grammar - Structure & Examples
• Quicksilver
• Quid pro quo
• Quillbot Review
• Quillbot vs Grammarly
• Quire vs. Choir - Meaning, Difference & Spelling
• Quisling
• Quiver vs quaver
• Quixotic
• Quotation Marks (") - Rules and Examples
• Quotation Marks or Italics In Titles?
• Quote Unquote - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Quote vs quotation
• Quote Within a Quote - Guide and Examples
• Rabble-rouser
• Rack one's brain
• Rack vs. wrack
• Racket vs. racquet
• Radar, sonar, and lidar
• Radical
• Radical vs radicle
• Rah vs raw
• Rail vs rale
• Rain Check - Idiom, Slang & Meaning
• Rain vs. Rein vs. Reign - Difference in Definition & Spelling
• Raining cats and dogs
• Raise Cain
• Raise One’s Hackles or Get One’s Hackles Up
• Raise the bar
• Raise vs rays
• Raise vs raze
• Raise vs rise
• Raison d'etre
• Rake over the coals and haul over the coals
• Rambunctious
• Ramrod straight and ramrod through
• Ramshackle
• Rancor vs. rancour
• Random act of kindness
• Randomize vs randomise
• Rank and file
• Rap on the knuckles
• Rappel vs. repel
• Rapt vs. wrapt
• Raring to Go - Meaning and Origin
• Rat Race - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Rational or rationale
• Ravaging vs. ravishing
• Raven vs raven
• Raven vs ravenous
• Razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz
• Razzmatazz or razzamatazz
• Re-create vs. recreate
• Reactionary vs. reactive
• Read between the lines
• Read the fine print and read the small print
• Read the riot act
• Read the Room - Origin & Meaning
• Read vs read
• Real-time vs. Real Time
• Realise vs. realize
• Realty vs reality
• Reappropriate
• Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
• Rebel vs rebel
• Rebuke vs refute
• Rebus
• Rebut vs refute
• Recant vs recount
• Recede vs reseed
• Receipt vs. Recipe - Difference in Meaning & Spelling
• Recent vs. resent
• Recognize vs recognise
• Reconnoiter
• Record vs record
• Recur vs. reoccur
• Recuse vs excuse
• Red carpet
• Red flag
• Red herring
• Red tape
• Red vs. Read - Usage, Difference & Meaning
• Red-Letter Day - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Redact vs retract
• Redneck vs. Hillbilly vs. Hick - What's the Difference?
• Redoubt
• Redress vs readdress
• Reed vs read
• Reef vs wreath
• Reek vs wreak
• Referendum
• Reflexive Pronouns - Definition & Examples (Worksheet Included)
• Reforested wood
• Refugee vs immigrant
• Refuse vs refuse
• Regard vs. regards
• Regift
• Regime vs. regimen
• Regimen vs regiment
• Regrettable vs. regretful
• Regulate vs relegate
• Reindeer or caribou
• Reinvent the Wheel - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Relative Clauses - Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• Relative Clauses Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Relative Pronouns - Usage & Examples (with Worksheet)
• Relevancy vs. Relevance - Usage, Difference & Meaning
• Reluctant vs reticent
• Remunerate vs. renumerate
• Renascence and renaissance
• Rend or rent
• Renege vs rescind
• Repair vs reparation
• Repeal vs repeel
• Repel vs. repulse
• Repertoire or repertory
• Repetition vs repetitiveness
• Repetitive vs redundant
• Reported Speech - Rules, Examples & Worksheet
• Reported Speech Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Reporting Verbs - Usage, List of Examples & Worksheet
• Reporting Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Represent vs represent
• Repudiate and refudiate
• Repudiate vs refute
• Repugnant vs pungent
• Repute vs refute
• Reputedly vs reportedly
• Requiem
• Resemble vs reassemble
• Resent vs resent
• Resign vs re-sign
• Resilience vs. resiliency
• Resister vs resistor
• Resolve vs solve
• Respective, respectively
• Rest on one's laurels
• Rest or Wrest - Meaning & Difference
• Restaurateur vs. restauranteur
• Restitution vs retribution
• Restive
• Restrict vs constrict
• Restrictive and nonrestrictive
• Résumé
• Retard
• Retch vs. wretch
• Retcon
• Retrograde vs anterograde or antegrade
• Retronym
• Retrospect vs introspect
• Reverent vs reverend
• Reverso Grammar Review
• Review vs. revue
• Revising vs. Editing - What's the Difference?
• Rhetorical question
• Rhyme or reason
• Ridded
• Ride on someone's coattails and coattail effect
• Ride roughshod and run roughshod
• Ride shotgun and call shotgun
• Rife vs. ripe
• Riff vs. rift
• Riffle vs rifle
• Riffraff
• Riffraff vs riprap
• Right off the bat
• Right-of-way
• Right-side up
• Right, rite or write
• Righten
• Rigmarole
• Rigor mortis
• Rime vs. Rhyme - What's the Difference?
• Ring vs. wring
• Rings a bell
• Rip-off or rip off
• Riposte vs repost
• Riptide, rip current or undertow
• Rise Like A Phoenix From The Ashes
• Risky vs risqué
• Rite of passage
• Rivaled/rivaling vs. rivalled/rivalling
• Road hog
• Road kill or roadkill
• Road rage
• Road rash and gravel rash
• Road vs. Rode
• Roam vs Rome
• Rob Peter to pay Paul
• Rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock'n'roll, etc.
• Rock the Boat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Roil vs royal
• Role vs. Roll - Difference & Meaning
• Roll up one's sleeves
• Rollout vs. roll out
• Rollover vs. roll over
• Roman-à-clef
• Rood vs rude
• Roofs vs. rooves
• Rookie
• Roommate, room mate or room-mate
• Root vs. route vs. rout
• Rose-colored glasses
• Rot vs wrought
• Rotate or revolve
• Rotund vs rotunda
• Rouge vs. Rogue - What's the Difference?
• Rouse vs rows
• Roux, rue or roué
• Row vs row
• Rows vs rose
• Royal "we"
• RSVP
• Rub someone the wrong way and rub someone up the wrong way
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rubberneck
• Rubenesque
• Rude vs rued
• Ruff vs. Rough - Spelling, Usage & Meaning
• Ruffle someone's feathers
• Rule of thumb
• Rummy
• Rumor vs roomer
• Rumour or Rumor - Difference & Meaning
• Run it up the flagpole
• Run of the mill and run-of-the-mill
• Run out the clock
• Run rings around someone and run circles around someone
• Run the gamut vs run the gauntlet
• Run-on sentences
• Runaway vs. run away
• Rung vs wrung
• Running on empty and running on fumes
• Rye vs wry
• Sabbatical vs sabbath
• Sac vs sack
• Saccharin vs. saccharine
• Sachet vs sashay
• Sackcloth and ashes
• Sacred cow
• Sacrilege, sacrilegious
• Sadist vs. Masochist vs. Sadomasochism - Difference & Definition
• Said
• Said the actress to the bishop
• Sail vs. Sale - Homophones, Difference & Meaning
• Salacious
• Salient vs salience
• Salt of the earth
• Saltwater vs. salt water
• Salubrious vs lugubrious
• Salvage vs selvage or selvedge
• Same Difference - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Same old same old
• Samovar vs scimitar
• Sanatorium vs sanatarium
• Sanctimonious vs sanctify
• Sang vs sung
• Sangfroid
• Sanguine vs exsanguinate
• Sanitise vs. Sanitize
• Sank vs. sunk
• Sans - Usage, Meaning & Definition
• Sarcasm
• Sarcophagus
• Sarcophagus vs mausoleum
• Sari vs sorry
• Sartorial vs satirical
• Satire vs satyr
• Satisficing vs satisfying
• Savanna vs. savannah
• Savant vs servant
• Save one's bacon
• Save something for a rainy day
• Saved by the bell
• Saviour or Savior - Which One to Use?
• Savoir faire
• Savor vs saver
• Savvy
• Sawed vs sod
• Sawing logs and sawing wood
• Say cheese
• Say one's peace vs piece
• Say when
• Scam or sham
• Scapegoat or Escape Goat - Origin & Meaning
• Scared vs scarred
• Scarfs vs. scarves
• Scatological
• Scavenger hunt
• Scavenger, scavenge
• Sceptic vs septic
• Sceptic vs. skeptic
• Schadenfreude - Usage & Meaning in English
• Schema or schematic
• Schizophrenia as an adjective
• Schmooze and shmooze
• Schmuck versus putz
• Scintilla
• Scion
• Scissors
• Scofflaw
• Scorched earth policy
• Scot-free
• SCOTUS
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel
• Scrapped vs scraped
• Scratch the surface
• Screwball
• Scribens Review
• Scrimp vs skimp
• Scrip vs script
• Scrivener Review
• Scrumdiddlyumptious
• Scrummy
• Scuba
• Scull vs skull
• Sculpture vs sculptor
• Sea change
• Seam vs seem
• Sear vs. seer vs. sere
• Seas, sees or seize
• Seasonable vs seasonal
• Secede vs. succeed
• Second Conditional - Examples & Worksheet
• Second Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Second string
• Second that emotion or notion or motion
• Second wind
• Second-Guess - Usage & Meaning
• Secret Santa
• Secret vs. secretive
• Secular vs sacred
• Security blanket
• Sediment vs sentiment
• Sedimentary vs sedentary
• Sedition vs sedation
• See a man about a dog and see a man about a horse
• See Eye to Eye - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
• See vs. Sea - Usage, Difference & Meaning
• Seen vs. Scene - Homophones & Meaning
• Segue vs Segway
• Seldomly - Meaning & Definition
• Self vs self
• Self-quarantine vs self-isolation
• Selfie
• Selling like hotcakes
• Semi-, hemi-, and demi-
• Semicolon vs. Period - Which One To Use?
• Seminal
• Semper fidelis
• Sensational vs sensationalistic
• Sense vs. Since vs. Cense - What's the Difference?
• Senses vs census
• Sensual vs. sensuous
• Sentence Structure Types and Examples
• Sentience vs sapience
• Sentient vs sentiment
• Separate vs separate
• Separate vs. Seperate - What's the Difference?
• Sepulcher, crypt, catacomb or mausoleum
• Sequacious
• Sequins vs sequence
• Seraphic
• Serf vs surf
• Series
• Serif vs seraph
• Serigraph vs lithograph
• Serious vs sirius
• Service (as a verb)
• Serviette or napkin
• Set Up vs. Setup vs. Set-up
• Sever vs severe
• Sew vs. Sow - What's the difference?
• Sewer vs sewer
• Shaggy-dog story
• Shake a leg
• Shake one's head vs nod one's head
• Shake vs sheikh
• Shall vs. will
• Shame vs ashamed
• Shanghai (as a verb)
• Shape up or ship out
• Sharable vs. shareable
• Shard or sherd
• Share and share alike vs per stirpes
• Sharp as a tack
• Shat vs. shitted
• Shaved vs. shaven
• Shear vs. sheer
• Sheath vs. sheathe
• Shed vs. shedded
• Shelf vs. shelve
• Shell game
• Shell out
• Shell-shocked
• Shellac, shellack
• Shenanigans
• Sherbert vs. sherbet
• Shill vs chill
• Shill vs shell
• Shined or Shone - Difference, Definition & Examples
• Ships passing in the night
• Shiv
• Shoe vs shoo
• Shone vs shown
• Shoo-in
• Shoot oneself in the foot
• Shoot the breeze
• Shooting fish in a barrel
• Shooting the messenger and don't shoot the messenger
• Shop till you drop
• Shopping cart or buggy
• Shore up
• Shore vs sure
• Short Fuse - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Short shrift
• Shotgun approach and scattershot approach
• Shotgun Wedding - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Should have, should've or should of
• Shoveled/shoveling vs. shovelled/shovelling
• Show of hands
• Show one's cards and tip one's hand
• Show one's true colors
• Showboat
• Showrunner
• Shrinking violet
• Shriveled/Shriveling vs. Shrivelled/Shrivelling
• Shtick
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Shut or close the barn door after the horse has bolted
• Shut-in
• Shutter vs. shudder
• Sic semper tyrannis
• Sic vs. sick
• Side hustle
• Side vs sighed
• Sight vs. site
• Sign up vs signup
• Sign vs sine
• Signet vs cygnet
• Significant Other - Meaning & Origin
• Silicon vs. silicone
• Silva vs silver
• Silver lining
• Silver-tongued
• Simile
• Simple Future Tense - Examples & Worksheet
• Since vs because
• Sine die
• Sine qua non
• Sing for one's supper
• Singly vs singularly
• Sink vs sync
• Sisyphean, Promethean or Herculean
• Sit at the feet of someone
• Sit vs set
• Site vs. Cite - What's the Difference?
• Sitting duck
• Sitting in the catbird seat
• Sitting on a powder keg
• Six of one, half a dozen of the other
• Six ways from Sunday
• Sizable or sizeable
• Skating on thin ice and on thin ice
• Skeleton in the closet and skeleton in the cupboard
• Skid row vs skid road
• Skilful vs. skillful
• Skunkworks
• Slack vs slake
• Slam dunk
• Slap-happy
• Slash (Virgule) Punctuation Rules With Examples
• Slave driver
• Slay vs sleigh
• Slayed or slew
• Sled, sledge, sleigh and toboggan
• Sledge vs sludge
• Sleep like a top
• Sleep with the fishes
• Sleight of hand
• Sleight vs slight
• Slip of the Tongue - Origin & Meaning
• Slipshod
• Slough vs slew
• Slough vs slough
• Slow and steady wins the race
• Slow vs sloe
• Slumgullion and goulash
• Smack of
• Small potatoes
• Smarmy
• Smart alec and smart aleck
• Smartphone vs smart phone
• Smarty-pants and smarty-boots
• Smell a rat
• Smelled vs. Smelt - Difference & Meaning
• Smite, smote, smitten
• Smoke and mirrors
• Smokey vs. smoky
• Smooth vs. Smoothe vs. Smoothen
• Smorgasbord
• Snake in the Grass - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Snake oil, snake-oil salesman
• Sneaked vs. snuck
• Snipe hunt
• Snitch
• Snobbery or snobbishness
• So to speak
• Soapbox
• Soar vs sore
• Soared vs sword
• Sob sister and sob story
• Soccer mom and hockey mom
• Social vs sociable
• Sojourn vs adjourn
• Solder vs soldier
• Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, & Sailors - What's the Difference?
• Sole vs soul
• Soliloquy vs monologue
• Solitaire and patience games
• Somber vs. sombre
• Some and Any Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Some odd
• Some Time vs Sometime vs Sometimes - What's the Difference?
• Some vs sum
• Some vs. Any - Usage, List of Examples & Exercises
• Some way vs. someway
• Somebody vs. someone
• Someday vs. some day
• Someplace vs. some place
• Somersault
• Something has legs
• Something smells fishy
• Something, Anything, Nothing & Everything (With Worksheet)
• Sooner rather than later
• Sorbet
• Sort Of - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Sorted vs sordid
• SOS and Mayday
• Sot vs sought
• Sound bite
• Sound like a broken record
• Sounding board
• Soup up
• Sour grapes
• Sow vs sow
• Sow wild oats
• Spaces between sentences
• Spade vs spayed
• Spake
• Spanish fly
• Spare the rod; spoil the child
• Spartan
• Spat or spitted
• Spatter vs. splatter
• Speak for yourself
• Speak now or forever hold your peace
• Speak of the devil
• Speak to
• Speak truth to power
• Speak with a forked tongue
• Speaks volumes
• Spearhead
• Speciality vs. specialty
• Species
• Specious vs spurious
• Speck vs spec
• Specter vs. spectre
• Spectra vs. spectrums
• Sped vs. speeded
• Spelling bee
• Spelling Strategies and Techniques For Students and Adults
• Spelt or Spelled - Difference & Examples
• Spend a penny
• Spic and span vs spick and span
• Spiel or Schpiel - Meaning, Spelling & Examples
• Spiffy
• Spill the beans
• Spilled vs. spilt
• Spin a yarn
• Spin one's wheels
• Spinster
• Spit and Image, Spitting Image, or Splitting Image
• Spitballing
• Spite vs respite
• Spitz vs spits
• Split Infinitive - Usage, Rules & Examples
• Split the difference
• Spoiled vs. spoilt
• Spoof
• Spoonerism vs malapropism
• Spoopy and creppy
• Spork
• Spouse vs espouse
• Spreaded
• Spruce Up - Origin & Meaning
• Spry
• Spur vs spurn
• Spur vs. spurn
• Square meal
• Squinch
• Stab in the back
• Stadia vs. stadiums
• Staff vs staph
• Staid vs stayed
• Stained glass
• Stair vs stare
• Stake vs steak
• Stalking horse
• Stanch vs. staunch
• Stand alone vs standalone
• Stand one's ground and hold one's ground
• Stand the test of time
• Stand up vs prop up
• Standby vs. stand by
• Star-crossed
• Starry-eyed and stars in one's eyes
• Start from scratch
• Start with a clean slate and wipe the slate clean
• Stat vs now
• State of the art
• Stationary vs. stationery
• Stative Verbs - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Stative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Statue vs statute
• Status quo
• Statute of limitations
• Stave off
• Stay on top of
• Staycation - Meaning & Etymology
• Steal someone's thunder
• Steal vs steel
• STEM
• Stem-winder or stemwinder
• Stent vs stint
• Step into the breach
• Step on someone's toes
• Step up to the plate
• Step vs steppe
• Stick a fork in it
• Stick one's neck out
• Stick out like a sore thumb
• Stick to one's guns and stand to one's guns
• Stick to, stick by, or stick with
• Stick-in-the-mud
• Sticker shock
• Sticks and stones
• Sticktoitiveness
• Sticky fingers
• Stigma, stigmas or stigmata
• Still Waters Run Deep - Origin & Meaning
• Stir the Pot or Stirring the Pot - Origin & Meaning
• Stir up a hornets' nest and stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir-Crazy - Origin, Usage & Meaning
• Stock vs stalk
• Stock-still
• Stock, shares
• Stockholm syndrome
• Stocking stuffer and stocking filler
• Stolen vs stollen
• Stomping ground and stamping ground
• Stone cold and stone-cold
• Stonewall
• Stool pigeon
• Stop and smell the roses
• Storey vs. Story
• Straight A's
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Straight from the shoulder
• Straight shooter
• Straight vs. strait
• Strait-laced
• Straitjacket
• Stratagem vs. strategy
• Straw man and man of straw
• Straw that broke the camel’s back and the last straw
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Striped/striping vs stripped/stripping
• Strived, striven, strove
• Strop vs strap
• Sty vs stye
• Style vs stile
• Sub rosa vs sub-rosa
• Sub vs infra
• Subconscious vs. unconscious
• Subject and Object Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Subject and Object Questions - Difference & Examples
• Subject and Object Questions Exercises (+ Printable PDF)
• Subject to vs subjected to
• Subject vs. Object Pronouns - Usage, Difference & Examples
• Subject-verb agreement
• Subjugated vs subjected to
• Subjunctive Mood - Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Suborn
• Subpoena
• Substantial vs. substantive
• Subtext
• Subtle vs. subtil
• Succor or succour vs sucker
• Suede vs swayed
• Suffice to Say or Suffice It to Say - Meaning & Examples
• Sugar daddy
• Sugarcoat
• Sui generis
• Suit vs suite
• Suite vs sweet
• Sulfur vs. sulphur
• Sulk vs skulk
• Summa cum laude or magna cum laude
• Summary vs. summery
• Summons and summonses
• Sun vs. Son - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
• Sunday driver
• Sunday vs. Sundae - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
• Super vs supra
• Super vs ultra
• Superlative Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Superlatives - Definition, Examples, & Worksheet
• Supersede or supercede
• Supply and demand
• Supposably
• Suppose To or Supposed To - Usage & Examples
• Surely vs surly
• Surge vs serge
• Surgeon vs sturgeon
• Surrogacy
• Surveil
• Suspect vs suspect
• Suspect, person of interest or perpetrator
• Sutler vs settler
• Svengali
• Swan song
• Swanning around and swanning about
• Swashbuckle
• Swatch vs swath
• Swath vs. swathe
• Sweat vs. sweated
• Sweep something under the rug and sweep something under the carpet
• Sweeped or swept
• Sweet Tooth - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Sweeten the pot
• Swing for the fences
• Sword of Damocles
• Sycophant
• Symbol vs. Cymbal - Meaning, Homophones & Spelling
• Symbolic vs symbiotic
• Synchronise or synchronize
• Synonym vs cinnamon
• Synonyms
• Systematic vs systematical
• Systematic vs. systemic
• T-shirt, t-shirt, tee-shirt, tee shirt
• Tabula rasa
• Tacit vs taciturn
• Tack vs. tact
• Tacks vs tax
• Tad bit vs tidbit
• Tag Questions - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Tag Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Tail vs. tale
• Tail wagging the dog
• Take a back seat
• Take a bath
• Take a Gander - Meaning & Examples
• Take a hike
• Take a knee
• Take a powder
• Take a shine to
• Take a shot
• Take a toll and take its toll
• Take at face value
• Take for granted or take for granite
• Take it or leave it
• Take no prisoners
• Take over vs. takeover
• Take someone for a ride
• Take the bull by the horns and grab the bull by the horns
• Take the cake
• Take the Fifth and plead the Fifth
• Take the High Road - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Take the mickey out of someone
• Take the reins
• Take to the cleaners
• Take with a grain of salt and take with a pinch of salt
• Takeaway and takeout
• Taken Back or Taken Aback - Which One to Use?
• Talk a blue streak and curse a blue streak
• Talk is cheap
• Talk of the Town - Origin & Meaning
• Talk out of both sides of one’s mouth
• Talk to the Hand - Origin & Meaning
• Talk turkey
• Tamper vs temper
• Tanker vs tankard
• Tar and feather
• Tar baby
• Tariff
• Taro vs tarot
• Tartar or tartare
• Taser
• Tattletale vs telltale
• Taught vs taut
• Taught vs tot
• Taupe vs tope
• Taut vs taunt
• Tea vs tee
• Teacher's pet
• Team vs teem
• Tear vs tare
• Tear vs tier
• Tear vs. Tear - Usage, Difference & Meaning
• Teas vs tease
• Tease out
• Technicolor yawn
• Teeth vs. teethe
• Teetotaler, teetotaller
• Telegram vs. telegraph
• Tell it to the marines
• Temblor, tremblor or trembler
• Tempest in a teapot and storm in a teacup
• Tempus Fugit - Origin & Meaning in English
• Tenant vs. tenet
• Tent vs tint
• Tenure vs tenor
• Terminal Punctuation - How to End a Sentence
• Terminate
• Tern vs turn
• Terra firma
• Terrific vs terrifying
• Terroir and terror
• Test Your Punctuation Skills (Quizzes With Answers)
• Testament vs. testimony
• Testing the Waters - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Tete-a-tete
• Textish
• Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day
• That or Who - When & How to Use Correctly
• That vs. which
• That which
• That's all she wrote
• The $64,000 question
• The Ampersand (&) - How and When to Use It
• The apple of one's eye
• The ball is in your court
• The be-all and end-all
• The Best of Both Worlds - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• The big picture
• The birds and the bees
• The blind leading the blind
• The Bronx
• The Caret Symbol: How to Use It and What It Means
• The Clock Is Ticking or Time Is Ticking - Origin & Meaning
• The Customer Is Always Right - Origin, Meaning & Explanation
• The Devil Is in the Details - Origin & Meaning
• The die is cast
• The end justifies the means
• The exception that proves the rule
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The fair sex and the fairer sex
• The Game is Afoot - Meaning, Origin and Usage
• The genie is out of the bottle
• The handwriting on the wall or the writing on the wall
• The Hill you Want to Die on Idiom Definition
• The Importance of Punctuation
• The Interrobang Punctuation Mark(‽) - How to Use it Properly
• The jaws of life
• The jig is up and the game is up
• The jury is out
• The Late - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• The lesser of two evils
• The nature of the beast
• The pen is mightier than the sword
• The penny dropped
• The pick of the litter
• The Pilcrow or Paragraph Symbol ¶ (Keyboard Shortcuts)
• The Pipe Symbol (|): A Comprehensive Guide
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The quick and the dead
• The road less traveled
• The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions - Origin & Meaning
• The rub
• The seven deadly sins
• The squeaky wheel gets the grease
• The Straw Man Fallacy: Meaning and Examples
• The vs thee
• The whole megillah
• The world is one's oyster
• The worm has turned
• The worse for wear
• Theater vs. Theatre - What's the Difference?
• Their, them, themselves, they (as singular pronouns)
• Them's the breaks or brakes
• Then vs. Than - When to Use Each (With Examples)
• There Is vs. There Are - Difference & Worksheet
• There Is vs. There Are Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• There, Their, and They're - Differences and Examples (With Quiz)
• There's no free lunch
• Therefore
• Therefore vs therefor
• Thesauri or thesaurusus
• Think on one's feet
• Think outside the box
• Third Conditional - Uses, Examples, & Worksheet
• Third Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Third rail
• Third time's the charm
• This ain't my first rodeo
• This, That, These, and Those Exercises (With Printable PDF)
• Thong or flip-flop
• Thorn in one's side and thorn in one's flesh
• Thoroughbred vs purebred
• Thrall
• Three sheets to the wind
• Three-Ring Circus - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Threshold or threshhold
• Throes vs throws
• Throne vs thrown
• Through and through or thru and thru
• Through vs. Threw - Which One to Use and When
• Through vs. Thru - Difference, Usage & Examples
• Throw a curveball and throw a curve
• Throw good money after bad
• Throw in the towel
• Throw My Hat in the Ring - Meaning and Origin
• Throw or toss someone a bone
• Throw the baby out with the bathwater
• Throw under the bus
• Throwing Shade - Origin, Meaning & Examples
• Thrust, thrusted
• Thumb one’s nose and cock a snook
• Thumbs up and thumbs down
• Thusly
• Thyme vs time
• Tic vs. tick
• Tickled Pink - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Tidbit vs. titbit
• Tiddlywinks and tiddleywinks
• Tide Someone Over vs. Tied Someone Over - Origin & Definition
• Tide vs tied
• Tie the Knot or Tying the Knot - Meaning & Origin
• Tiger by the Tail - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Tilde Symbol (~) Definition, Usage, and Examples
• Till the cows come home
• Till, until, 'til
• Tilting at windmills
• Timber or timbre
• Time heals all wounds
• Time waits for no man
• Timeout vs. time out
• Timpanum, timpani, tympanum, tympani
• Tinder vs tender
• Tinker's damn and tinker's dam
• Tinsel vs tensile
• Tinseltown
• Tiny house and tiny home
• Tip of the iceberg
• Tip one’s hat and tip one’s cap
• Tips for Editing Your Research Paper (Checklist Included)
• Tire vs. tyre
• Tit for Tat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Titan vs tighten
• Title Capitalization Rules - Ultimate Guide
• Titles of Works - Punctuation Guide
• Titter vs titer
• Titular
• Tmesis
• TMI
• To a T
• To boot
• To cry wolf
• To err is human; to forgive, divine
• To harp on
• To hear crickets
• To make a long story short
• To say the least and to say the least of it
• To the bitter end
• To the hilt
• To the nines
• To the victor belong the spoils
• To vs. Too - The Difference With Examples
• To wit
• Toad vs towed
• Toe the line
• Toe vs tow
• Toffee-Nosed - Origin & Meaning
• Toile vs toil
• Toile vs tulle
• Toilette
• Told vs tolled
• Tole vs toll
• Tolerance vs. toleration
• Tomayto, tomahto and potayto, potahto
• Tomfoolery
• Ton vs. Tonne - What's the Difference?
• Tongue-in-Cheek - Meaning & Examples
• Tongue-lashing
• Tongue-tied
• Too big for one's britches or breeches and too big for one's boots
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Too many irons in the fire
• Too much of a good thing
• Tool vs tulle
• Toot Sweet - Meaning & Origin
• Top banana and second banana
• Top dog
• Topography vs. typography
• Tor vs tore
• Torrent vs torrid
• Torturous vs. tortuous
• Totaled/totaling vs. totalled/totalling
• Touch and go
• Touch base
• Touche or touché
• Tough row to hoe
• Tough vs tuff
• Tour de force
• Tourist trap
• Tout
• Toward vs. Towards - What's the Difference?
• Toweled or towelled
• Towhead
• Toxicology vs. toxology
• Track and field and athletics
• Track vs tract
• Tractable vs trackable
• Tragedy vs travesty
• Trainer or trainor
• Training wheels vs stabilisers
• Traitor vs trader
• Translucent vs. transparent
• Transparent, translucent and opaque
• Transpire - Definition & Examples
• Transport vs. transportation
• Trap vs entrap
• Travel, Traveled & Travelling - What's the Difference?
• Trawl vs. troll
• Treasurys
• Treatise vs treaties
• Treble vs. triple
• Trepidation
• Triage
• Trial By Fire - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• Trick or treat vs trick-or-treat
• Tried and true
• Trip the light fantastic
• Troglodyte
• Troika
• Trolling
• Troop vs. troupe
• Trouper vs. Trooper - Meaning, Difference & Examples
• Truck with
• Truculent
• Trump card
• Trussed vs trust
• Trustee vs. trusty
• Tsk Tsk or Tisk Tisk - Meaning & Examples
• Tsunami vs tidal wave
• Tumor vs. tumour
• Tunneled, Tunneling vs. Tunnelled, Tunnelling - What's the Difference?
• Turban vs turbine
• Turbid, turgid, torpid
• Turn a blind eye
• Turn heads and turn one's head
• Turn over a new leaf
• Turn over vs turnover
• Turn the other cheek
• Turn the tables
• Turnabout is fair play
• Turncoat
• Turnkey vs turn key
• Turpitude vs turpentine
• Turtle, tortoise, terrapin
• Tussie-mussie vs nosegay
• Tutor vs Tudor
• Twee
• Tween
• Tween or teen
• Twiddle one's thumbs
• Twist one's arm
• Two can play at that game
• Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right - Proverb, Meaning & Examples
• Two-bit
• Two's company, three's a crowd
• Types of Sentences With Examples - Declarative, Imperative, Exclamatory, and Interrogative
• U.S. state demonyms
• Uber
• Ubiquitous
• Udder vs. utter
• Ugly duckling
• Ulterior motive
• Umbrage
• Unawares
• Uncle Sam
• Uncomparable adjectives
• Uncountable Nouns - List, Definition & Examples
• Under false pretenses and under false pretences
• Under one's belt
• Under one's nose
• Under one’s breath
• Under someone's thumb
• Under the auspices of
• Under the table
• Under the weather
• Underdog
• Underlie or underline
• Underwater vs. Under Water
• Underway vs. under way
• Undo vs undue
• Undoubtably vs. undoubtedly
• Unexceptionable vs unexceptional
• Unfamous or infamous
• Union Jack
• Unionized vs unionized
• Unique
• United States (plural or singular?)
• Unkempt, unkept
• Unknown quantity
• Unpack
• Unputdownable
• Unsung hero
• Until one is blue in the face
• Until the last dog is hung
• Untoward
• Unwitting vs unwilling
• Up and at ‘em vs up and Adam or atom
• Up in arms
• Up one's sleeve and an ace up one's sleeve
• Up the creek and up a creek
• Up to date
• Up to Scratch - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Up to snuff
• Up to speed
• Upfront or Up Front - What's the Difference?
• Uphill battle
• Upload vs download
• Upmost vs. utmost
• Upper crust
• Upper Hand (or Have the Upper Hand) - Meaning & Origin
• Upset the applecart
• Upshot
• Urban legend and urban myth
• Urban vs urbane
• Urban, suburban and rural
• Use Vs Utilize
• Used To or Use To? - Meaning and Examples
• Using Apostrophes To Show Possession and Ownership
• Using Commas With Introductory Phrases
• Usually always
• Vacuous vs. vapid
• Vagabond and vagrant
• Vain, vein, and vane
• Vale, vail, or veil
• Valedictorian and salutatorian
• Valentine's Day
• Vamoose
• Vanguard
• Variance vs variants
• Varied vs various
• Variety is the spice of life
• Variety vs varietal
• Vary vs. Very - Homophones, Usage & Difference
• Vaudeville
• Vax
• Vegetarian vs vegan
• Venal vs venial
• Vent one's spleen
• Veracity vs. voracity
• Verb Tenses - Uses, Examples & Worksheet
• Verbatim vs paraphrase
• Verbiage
• Verbs and Prepositions - List, Examples & Worksheet
• Verbs Followed By Gerunds - List, Examples & Worksheet
• Verklempt
• Vernacular - Definition & Examples in a Sentence
• Verses vs. versus
• Vertex vs. vortex
• Vertigo vs vertiginous
• Very
• Vested
• Veteran vs veterinarian
• Vice versa
• Vice vs. Vise - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Vicious vs. viscous
• Vicissitude
• Vigilant vs vigilante
• Vigor, vigour and vigorous
• Vim and vigor
• Violation vs volition
• Viral vs virile
• Virtual reality
• Vis-a-vis
• Vitiate
• Vittle vs vital
• Viz. - Usage, Meaning & Abbreviation
• Voicemail
• Voluptuous vs voluminous
• Vouchsafe
• Vox populi
• Wack vs. whack
• Waddle vs. wattle
• Wade vs weighed
• Wagon vs. waggon
• Wainscot or chair rail
• Waist vs. waste
• Wait for the other shoe to drop
• Wait vs weight
• Waiting in the wings
• Waive vs. wave
• Waiver vs. waver
• Wake up and smell the coffee
• Wake vs awake
• Wake-up call
• Walk a mile in someone else's shoes
• Walk vs wok
• Walking on eggshells
• Wallflower - Idiom, Meaning & Definition
• Wallop and pack a wallop
• Wander vs. wonder
• Wane, wax
• Wangle vs wrangle
• Wanton vs. wonton
• Ware vs. Wear vs. Where - Difference in Meaning & Spelling
• Warm the cockles of one's heart
• Warrantee vs. warranty
• Wart vs wort
• Warts and all
• Wary vs. weary
• Was vs. Were - Usage, Examples & Worksheet
• Wash one’s hands of
• Washed up or all washed up
• Wassail
• Waste not, want not
• Watch the birdie
• Water under the bridge
• Waterloo or meet one's waterloo
• Watershed moment
• Watt vs what
• Wave the white flag
• We'd vs weed
• We'll vs wheel
• We're not in Kansas anymore
• Weak vs week
• Weakest Link - Usage, Meaning & Examples
• Wean vs ween
• Wear one's heart on one's sleeve
• Wear the trousers and wear the pants
• Weather vs. Whether vs. Wether - What's the Difference?
• Weaved, wove, woven
• Web site vs. website
• Website vs. web page
• Weekend
• Weekend vs weakened
• Weigh in
• Weir vs we're
• Well-being vs. Wellbeing vs. Well Being
• Well-heeled
• Wench vs winch
• Wend vs wind
• Were vs we're
• Wet behind the ears
• Wet Blanket - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
• Wet one’s whistle
• Wet vs. whet
• Whac-A-Mole
• Whacks vs wax
• Whale, wail or wale
• What Are Bloopers? - Meaning & Examples
• What are Brownie Points? - Origin & Meaning
• What Are Clauses? Definition, Examples & Worksheet
• What Are Collocations? - Examples & Worksheet
• What Are Conjunctions? Rules & Examples (With Worksheet)
• What Are Gooseflesh, Goosebumps, or Goose Pimples?
• What Are Heteronyms? - Usage, Meaning & List of Examples
• What Are Indefinite Articles? Examples & Worksheet
• What Are Indefinite Pronouns? Worksheet & Examples
• What Are Intensive Pronouns? Definition & Examples (Worksheet Included)
• What Are Interrogative Pronouns? Worksheet & Examples
• What Are Irish Twins? - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
• What Are Nouns? Definition & Examples (With Worksheet)
• What Are Personal Pronouns? Examples & Worksheet
• What Are Prep