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- -able and -ible
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- -gate Suffix
- -Holic, -Oholic, and -Aholic - Suffix, Meaning & Examples
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- 'Monkey Business' Idiom: The Art Of Trickery and Lies
- 'Tis the season
- "Be Patient" or "Have Patience" - Meaning & Difference
- "Google" vs. "google" - Is It Capitalized?
- "Used To" Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- (Let's) Call It a Night—A Simple Phrase for Going Home
- 10 Best Books for Proofreaders and Editors
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- 15 Freelance Writing Services—From Blogs to Whitepapers
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- 200+ Linking Words - Full List, Examples
- 21 Common Punctuation Mistakes
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- 25 Hilarious Proofreading and Editing Memes
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- 25 Unique Ways to Say Good Luck Without Being Cliché
- 29 Proofreading Marks and Symbols—The Key to Error-Free Writing
- 30 Common Grammar Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- 30 Dog Idioms and Phrases - Origins and Meanings
- 47 Greetings and Salutations in French
- 49 Top Tips for Effective Proofreading
- 5 Key Mindset Shifts to Boost Your Writing Resilience
- 50+ Simple Future Tense Examples and Worksheets
- 65 Motivational Writing Quotes to Ignite Your Creative Spark
- 7 Tips on How to Punctuate a Poem
- 7 Types of Commas - Usage & Examples
- A Bed of Roses - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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 Close Shave - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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—The Hidden Phrase for 'Too Horrible to Bear'
- A Feather in Your Cap - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A Fish Out of Water—A Simple Idiom for Feeling Awkward
- A Fishy Story – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed – Origin and Meaning
- A hold vs ahold
- A la (à la)
- À La Mode – Origin and Meaning in English
- A leg up
- A Lick and a Promise – Idiom, Meaning and 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
- A Lot On My Plate – How To Express Heavy Workload In English
- 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 picture is worth a thousand words
- A Piece of Work - Meaning & Examples
- A Pound of Flesh – Origin and Meaning
- A priori
- A rolling stone gathers no moss
- A Shot in the Arm - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- A Shot in the Dark – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- A Slap In The Face - Meaning & Examples
- A Slap on the Wrist - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A Stone's Throw—A Simple Phrase for Short Distance
- A Taste of Your Own Medicine or Dose of Your Own Medicine
- A Visit From The Stork - Idiom & Meaning
- A watched pot never boils
- A Whole Nother – Usage and 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
- Abhorrent vs aberrant
- Abided vs. abode
- Ability vs. capability vs. capacity
- Abject or object
- Abject vs object
- Abolishment vs. abolition
- About-face
- Above Board, Above-Board or Aboveboard
- Above one's pay grade
- Abracadabra - Usage, Origin & Meaning
- Abstruse vs. obtuse
- Abuse vs abuse
- Academic Editing—Precision in Academia
- Acapella or A Cappella – Definition and Correct Spelling
- Accell
- Accent vs accentuate
- Acceptance vs. acceptation
- Access
- Accessorize or Accessorise - Meaning & Spelling
- Accessory vs accessary
- Accidental vs incidental
- Acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize
- Accord vs. accordance
- According to Hoyle or According to Cocker - Origin & Meaning
- Ace in the Hole - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Achilles' heel
- Acid Test vs. Litmus Test - Idiom & Meaning
- Acknowledgement vs. Acknowledgment – Uses and Examples
- Acronym vs anacronym
- Across the Board - Origin & Meaning
- Action Speak Louder Than Words - Meaning & Examples
- Actualise vs actualize
- Ad hoc
- Ad Nauseam - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Ad vs. add
- Ad-lib and ad lib
- Adam's off ox
- 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 - Origin & Meaning
- Addenda vs. Addendums – What's the Difference?
- Addicting vs. addictive
- Addition vs. edition
- Adduce vs educe
- Adjectives and Adverbs - Difference, Examples
- Adjectives and Adverbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Adjectives: Definition, Types, Examples and Quizzes
- Adjudicate
- Admittance vs. Admission - Difference & Definition
- Adolescence vs adolescents
- Adopted vs. adoptive
- Ads, adds or adze
- Advance vs. advanced
- Advent
- Adventurous vs adventuresome
- Adverbs of Frequency - Rules, List of Examples
- Adverse vs. Averse - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Advertise vs advertize
- Advice vs. Advise - Meaning, Spelling & Examples
- Adviser vs. Advisor – Which Is Correct?
- Aeon vs. eon
- Aerie vs airy
- Aeroplane vs. airplane
- Aether vs. ether
- Aetiology or etiology
- Affect vs. Effect - What's the Difference?
- Affinity vs infinity
- Afflict vs. inflict
- Affluent vs. effluent
- African-American vs. black
- Afterward vs. afterwards
- Afterward vs. afterword
- Agape vs agape
- Ageing vs. Aging – Which Is Correct?
- Agent and recipient nouns
- Aggravate - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Aggravate vs aggregate
- Aggression vs. aggressiveness
- Agnostic vs. Atheist - What's the Difference?
- Agree
- Agreement vs. Agreeance – Which Is Correct?
- Ahead of the Curve or Ahead of the Curb - Origin & Meaning
- Aid vs. Aide - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Air vs err
- Akimbo
- Alas or But Alas - Usage, Punctuation & Meaning
- Albatross Around My Neck - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Albeit
- Alcoholism vs dipsomania
- Algorithm vs logarithm
- All American or all-American
- All Bark No Bite - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- 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 Roads Lead to Rome - Origin & Meaning
- All sizzle and no steak
- All Systems Go - Origin & Meaning
- 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
- Alliterate, literate or illiterate
- Allude vs elude
- Allusion vs. elusion vs. illusion
- Allusive, elusive or illusive
- Alma Mater - Meaning, Spelling & Capitalization
- Alphabetic vs. alphabetical
- Altar vs. alter
- Alternate vs alternate
- Alternate vs. alternative
- Alternately vs alternatively
- Although vs. though
- Aluminium vs. aluminum
- Alumna, Alumnae, Alumni, Alumnus - What's the Difference?
- Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- Always vs all ways
- Amalgam vs. amalgamation
- Amazeballs
- Amber vs ember
- Ambiance vs. ambience
- Ameliorate vs alleviate
- Amend vs. emend
- American
- Amiable vs. amicable
- Amok vs. amuck
- Among vs. Amongst - Difference, Usage & Examples
- Amoral vs. Immoral - What's the Difference?
- Amount vs. number
- Amphitheater vs amphitheatre
- An Arm and a Leg - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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
- Analog vs. analogue
- Analogue vs. analogy
- Analyse vs. Analyze - Difference & Meaning
- Analyses vs analyzes
- Anathema
- Ancillary vs auxiliary
- And yet
- Anesthesia vs anaesthesia
- Angel vs. Angle - How to Remember the Difference
- Angle Bracket Symbol
- Animal Adjectives - Complete List
- Animal collective nouns
- Annex vs. annexe
- Anodyne vs analgesic
- Another think coming
- Ante- vs anti-
- Antennae vs. antennas
- Antichrist
- Antimacassar
- Anyday vs any day
- Anyone vs. Any One - Usage & Difference
- Anyplace or Any Place - Which is Correct?
- Anytime vs. Any Time - Difference, Usage & Examples
- Anyway vs. anyways
- Apart vs. A Part - Usage, Difference & Definition
- Apartment vs. Flat - What's the Difference?
- Apologise vs. apologize
- Apostle
- 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
- Appal vs. appall
- Appeal to Authority Fallacy - Definition & Examples
- Appetizer or hors d'oeuvre
- Appetizer vs appetiser
- Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree - Origin & Meaning
- Apple of My Eye – The One Cherished Above All Others
- Apple-pie order
- Apple-Polish - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Apposite vs opposite
- Appositive Phrases and How to Use Them in a Sentence
- Apprehend vs apprehensive
- Apprehend vs comprehend
- 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
- Archaeology vs. archeology
- Are Seasons Capitalized? Examples in a Sentence
- 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
- Arse vs. Ass – What's the Difference?
- Artefact vs. artifact
- Artesian vs artisan
- Articulate vs articulate
- As Far As - Meaning & Examples
- As per
- As pleased as Punch
- As the Crow Flies – Idiom, Origin and 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 Wheel or Asleep at the Switch - Idiom & Meaning
- Aspiration vs inspiration
- Aspire vs inspire
- Assignation or assignment
- Asterisk Symbol (*) - Usage and Examples
- At All Costs or At Any Cost - Idiom & Meaning
- At Face Value – A Blind Belief Or Unquestioned Acceptance?
- At loggerheads
- At Sixes and Sevens - Origin & Meaning
- At the Drop of a Hat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- At the End of the Day - Usage & Meaning
- At Wits End - Meaning, Origin and Correct Spelling
- Ate vs. Eight - Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
- Attain vs. obtain
- Attic vs addict
- Attribute vs attribute
- Au contraire
- Au fait
- Au pair
- Aught or Aughts - Usage & Meaning
- August vs august
- Aunt vs. Ant – What's the Difference?
- Auspicious vs suspicious
- Authorise vs. Authorize – What's the Difference?
- Authoritative vs. authoritive
- Autocrit vs. ProWritingAid
- Autumn vs. fall
- Auxiliary Verbs - Uses, Examples
- Avail
- Avant-Garde – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- Avenge vs. Revenge vs. Vengeance - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Avocation vs. vocation
- Aw or awe
- Awaiting vs. Waiting – What's the Difference?
- Award vs reward
- Away vs a way
- Awhile vs. A While - Difference, Examples
- AWOL
- Ax vs. axe
- Axe to Grind – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Axiom, adage or epigram
- Axis vs axes
- B Line or Beeline - Origin & Meaning
- B2B Copywriting—The Future of Client Engagement
- Babe in the Woods - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- 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 or Bet on the Wrong Horse
- Back to Square One - Origin & Meaning
- Back up vs. backup
- Backseat Driver - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Backstab - Definition & Examples
- Backward vs backwards
- Backyard, back yard, back-yard
- Bad Apple - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bad penny
- Bad rap vs. bad wrap
- Bae vs bay
- Bail vs. Bale - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Bald, balled or bawled
- Balderdash - Origin, Meaning & Definition
- Ball vs. Bawl and Balling vs. Bawling - Difference & Meaning
- Baloney vs. bologna
- Ban vs. bar
- Baptise vs. baptize
- Baptism by Fire or Baptism of Fire – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah
- Barbecue vs. barbeque
- Barbed wire
- Bard vs. Barred
- Bare Bones - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bare vs. Bear - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Bark Is Worse Than One's Bite - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bark vs barque
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Basal, basil, or Basel
- Base or Bass - Pronunciation & Definition
- Basis (on a daily basis, on a regular basis, etc.)
- Basis vs bases
- Bass vs bass
- 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
- Bawl out
- Be My Guest - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bean Counter - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Beat Around the Bush - Origin & Meaning
- Beat Imposter Syndrome: 7 Tips to Write with Confidence
- Beat Me to the Punch – Origin and Meaning
- Beat or beaten
- Beat vs beet
- Beating a Dead Horse—An Idiom Explaining Futile Efforts
- Beau and Belle - Difference & Meaning
- Beau vs bow
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Bee in Your Bonnet – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Been around the block
- Beer vs bier
- Beg Off - Origin & Meaning
- 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
- Bells and Whistles – Origin and Meaning
- Benchmark
- Benefit of the Doubt - Meaning, Origin & Examples
- Benefiting vs. Benefitting – What's the Difference?
- Bent or bended
- Bereaved vs. bereft
- Berth vs birth
- Bespeckled or bespectacled
- Best AI Detectors—Top Detection Tools on the Market
- Best Amazon Proofreading and Editing Jobs
- Best Collaboration Tools: Your Pathway to Streamlined Projects
- Best Grammar Checkers for 2024 - Free and Paid
- Best Laid Plans - Origin & Meaning
- Best Markdown Editor for Windows and Mac
- Best Online Proofreading & Editing Courses
- Best Plagiarism Checkers—Ensuring Originality
- Best Proofreading And Editing Software
- Best Readability Checker
- Best Writing Assistant Programs For Writers - Free and Paid
- Better Late Than Never - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Better Safe Than Sorry - Proverb, Meaning & Examples
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Origin and Meaning
- Betwixt - Usage & Meaning
- Bezel vs embezzle
- Biannual, biennial and semiannual
- Biceps and triceps
- Bid, bade, bidden
- Big Fish in a Small Pond - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big Kahuna - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Big-ups
- Bigwig - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bill and Coo - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- 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 You Can Chew - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bite or Bight - What's the Difference?
- Bite the Bullet - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bite Your Tongue - Idiom, Origin & Examples
- Bite-size or bite-sized
- Biweekly vs semiweekly
- Black out vs blackout
- Black Sheep Idiom - Meaning & Origin
- Blackmail vs extortion
- Blah Blah Blah - Origin & Meaning
- Blatant vs. flagrant
- Blather vs blabber
- Blather vs. blither
- Blaze a Trail - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Blench vs blanch
- Blessed vs. Blest - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Blew, blown, or blowed
- Blind Leading the Blind - Origin & Meaning
- Blind Side vs. Blindside - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Blitzkrieg
- Bloc vs. block
- Blockbuster - Meaning & Examples
- Blond or Blonde - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Blood Is Thicker Than Water—Origin & Meaning
- Blow a Gasket vs. Blow a Fuse - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Blow Hot and Cold - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Blow off steam and let off steam
- Blow Someone's Cover - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Blow the Whistle - Origin & Meaning
- Blowhard and windbag
- Blowing a Raspberry or Bronx Cheer - Origin & Meaning
- Blowing up one's phone
- Blowout vs. blow out
- Blowup vs. blow up
- Blue blood
- Board vs bored
- Bob's Your Uncle Meaning and Origin
- Bobble vs bauble
- Bobbsey twins
- Bohemian
- Bokeh
- Bold as brass
- Bold-Faced Lie or Bald-Faced Lie - Meaning & Origin
- Boldface text
- Bona fide, bona fides
- Bone vs debone
- Booby hatch
- Book Proofreading Jobs and How to Land Them
- Boot camp
- Boots on the Ground - Origin & Meaning
- Bore, boor, boar
- Born with a Silver Spoon – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Borne vs. born
- Borough, burro, burrow
- Bot vs bought
- Botanic vs. botanical
- Bottom Line - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bough or bow
- Bought the Farm vs. Gone for a Burton - Origin & Meaning
- Boughten
- Bound vs. bounded
- Bounteous vs bountiful
- Bourgeois, bourgeoisie
- Bow vs bow
- Bowdlerize
- Bowl Over or Bowled Over - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bowl vs bowel
- Boy vs buoy
- Brackets in Quotes - Usage & Examples
- Brackets vs. Parentheses
- Braggart vs bragger
- Brake vs. Break - Homophones, Spelling & Difference
- Brand spanking new
- Breach, breech, broach
- Bread and Butter - Origin & Meaning
- Bread vs. Bred - Homophones, Difference & Definition
- Break a Leg - Origin & Meaning
- Break the Bank - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Break the Ice—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Break the Mold or Broke the Mold - Origin & Meaning
- Break up vs. breakup
- Breakthrough Copyediting and Proofreading Course
- Breakthrough Copyediting and Proofreading Course (April Promo)
- Breakthrough Copyediting and Proofreading Light Course
- Breastfeeding, breastfed, breastfeed, etc.
- Breath vs. breadth (vs. width)
- Breath vs. Breathe - Usage, Difference & Definition
- Breeches vs. Britches
- Bric-a-brac and knick-knack
- Brief vs debrief
- Bring Home the Bacon - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bring one's A-game
- Bring the House Down or Bring Down the House - Idiom & Meaning
- Bring vs take
- Brite vs. Bright - Meaning, Definition & Spelling
- Briton
- Briton vs Britain
- Brouhaha
- Brown-nose and brownnose
- Brung, brang
- Brussels Sprout vs. Brussle Sprout
- Buck Naked vs. Butt Naked - Which Is Correct?
- Buckle Down—Unraveling the Determination Behind the Idiom
- Buckle Up - Origin & Meaning
- Buffaloed - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Buffer vs. buffet
- Buffet vs buffet
- Build up vs. buildup
- Building castles in the air
- Bulk, balk, baulk
- Bull in a China Shop - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bullet Points - Rules, Usage, and Examples
- Bullion vs boullion
- Bullseye or bull's eye
- Bum-rush vs bum's rush
- Bun in the Oven - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bundle of Joy - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Bunk vs debunk
- Bunny vs Bunnie
- Bupkis
- Burgle vs. burglarize
- Burn One's Boat or Burn One's Bridges – Origin & Meaning
- Burned vs. Burnt - Difference, Definition & Examples
- Burning the Candle at Both Ends - Origin & Meaning
- Burning the Midnight Oil - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Burnout vs. burn out
- Burrow vs borrow
- Burst Your Bubble or Pop Your Bubble - Origin & Meaning
- Bursted
- Bury The Hatchet - Origin & Meaning
- Bury Your Head in the Sand - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Bus stop vs. busstop
- Bused, bussed, or bust
- Buses vs. busses
- Busman's Holiday – Origin and Meaning
- Busting Your Chops – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- But vs. Butt - Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- But vs. yet
- Butt (Bump) Heads—The Challenge of Conflict
- Butt of a joke
- Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
- Butterflies in My Stomach - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Buy a lemon
- By and by vs. by the by
- By hook or by crook
- By the Same Token – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- By the Skin of My Teeth - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- By The Way (BTW) - Usage & Meaning
- C'est Comme Ca vs. Comme Ci, Comme Ca - Meaning in English
- Cabin Fever – Origin & Meaning
- Cacti vs. Cactuses – Which Is the Correct Plural Usage?
- Caddie vs. caddy
- Caddy-Corner, Kitty-Corner or Catty-Corner
- Caesarean section, Caesarian, cesarean, etc.
- Calfs or Calves - Usage, Difference & Examples
- Caliber or Calibre - Difference & Meaning
- Calibration vs collaboration
- Call a Spade a Spade - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Call My Bluff - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Call on the carpet
- Call the Shots (or Calling the Shots) - Idiom & Meaning
- Callous vs. callus
- Calm Before the Storm - Origin & Meaning
- 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 - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Can't Make Heads or Tails – Meaning and Origin
- Can't vs cant
- Canceled vs. Cancelled - Which Is Correct?
- Candy Floss vs. Fairy Floss vs. Cotton Candy
- Cannon fodder
- Cannot or Can Not - Usage, Difference & Examples
- Canny vs uncanny
- 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
- Carburetor vs carburettor
- Card Shark or Card Sharp - Origin & Meaning
- Careen vs. career
- Carnation vs incarnation
- Carpe Diem - Origin & Meaning
- Carrot, carat, karat, caret
- Carry a Torch for Someone—Journey Through Unrequited Love
- Carry on, carry-on, and carrion
- Carte blanche
- Case in Point or Case and Point - Meaning & Difference
- Cash on the Barrelhead—A Simplified Expression for Immediate Payment
- Cashmere vs Kashmir
- Cassandra
- Cast a wide net
- Cast Aspersions or Dispersions - Difference & Meaning
- Cast Aspersions—Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Cast pearls before swine
- Cast the First Stone—An Important Lesson in Judgement
- Casted – Usage and Meaning
- Cat Got Your Tongue - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Catalog vs. Catalogue - Difference & Definition
- Catalyse or catalyze
- Catbird Seat: Idiom Of Power And Advantage
- Catcall - Definition & Examples
- Catch vs. Ketch
- Catch-22
- Catching Some Rays - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Categorize vs categorise
- Catsup vs. Ketchup vs. Catchup - What's the Difference?
- Cattle vs chattel
- Caucus
- Caught in the Crosshairs – Targeted Scrutiny or Unwanted Blame?
- Caught Red-Handed - Origin & Meaning
- Causative Verbs - Rules, Structure & List of Examples
- Causative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Cause Célèbre - Meaning & Examples
- Caveat
- Cay vs. Key vs. Quay - Homophones, Pronunciation & Definition
- Cede vs. concede
- Ceiling vs sealing
- Cel, cell or sell
- Celebrant or celebrator
- Celiac or coeliac
- Cellar vs. Seller
- Center around or center on
- Century or Centuries – Usage and Meaning
- Ceremonial vs ceremonious
- Certainty vs. certitude
- Chafe vs. chaff
- Chaise lounge and chaise longue
- Chalk up vs. chock
- Champing at the Bit vs. Chomping at the Bit – Meaning and Origin
- Change tack
- Character or caricature
- Charade and charades
- Charism vs charisma
- Chary vs. Cherry
- Chase one's own tail
- Chaste vs chased
- Chasten vs. chastise
- Chatbot
- Chateaus vs chateaux
- Chatty Cathy - Origin & Meaning
- Cheapskate - Origin & Meaning
- Check in vs. Check-in (vs. Checkin)
- 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
- Cheshire Cat Smile – An Innocent Grin or a Smug?
- Chew the Fat - Origin & Meaning
- Chewed Out – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Chicken and Egg Situation – Idiom, Meaning & Examples
- Chickens Come Home to Roost – Origin and Meaning
- 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
- Chip off the Old Block—A Simple Resemblance Idiom
- Chip on Your Shoulder – Origin and Meaning
- Chips vs. fries
- Choate or inchoate
- Choosing a Name For Your Proofreading Business
- Chorale, Choral or Corral
- Chose vs. Choose – Usage With Examples
- Chow vs. Ciao
- Chute vs. shoot
- Cinch the deal or clinch the deal
- Citizen journalism
- Civic vs. civil
- Civil rights and human rights
- Clam Up – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Clamor vs clamber
- Classic vs. classical
- Clean Slate – An English Idiom for New Beginnings
- Clean vs. cleanse
- Clean Your Clock – Origin & Meaning
- Cleanup vs. clean up
- Clench vs. clinch
- Clew vs clue
- Clickbait - Origin & Meaning
- Client vs. Customer - Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Cliffs Notes
- Climactic vs. climatic
- Clime vs climb
- Cloak-and-Dagger – Origin and Meaning
- Close Proximity or In Close Proximity - Meaning & Definition
- Close Ranks - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Close rhyme
- Close vs. Close - Difference & Meaning
- Close-Knit vs. Tight-Knit - Usage & Meaning
- Close-Minded or Closed-Minded – Definition and Examples
- Closer vs closure
- Cloture vs closure
- Co-op vs. co-opt
- Co-ordinate vs coordinate
- Coal, cole or kohl
- Coarse vs. course
- Coast Is Clear - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cock and bull story
- Coddle and mollycoddle
- Coddle vs. Caudle
- Cog In The Wheel Or Cog In The Machine – Origin and 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 and Meaning
- Coliseum vs. colosseum
- Collectible vs collectable
- College vs. University - Usage, Difference, & Meaning
- Collegial vs. collegiate
- 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
- Combine vs combine
- Come Hell Or High Water – An Expression Of Perseverance
- Come over vs overcome
- Come What May - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Come-hither look
- Come-to-Jesus moment and come-to-Jesus meeting
- Comedienne
- Comic vs. comical
- Coming Down the Pike vs. Coming Down the Pipe
- Coming of age
- 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
- Commas in a List - How To Use Them Correctly
- Commas in Dates - Rules and Examples
- Commend vs command
- Commentator vs. commenter
- Commiserate vs commensurate
- Compact vs compact
- Comparative Adjectives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Comparative Essay Writing: Methods and Examples
- Comparatives and Superlatives - Examples
- Compared To or With – Which One To Use?
- Comparing Apples to Oranges - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Compel vs. impel
- Competence and competency
- Complacent vs complicit
- Complement vs. compliment
- Compose vs. comprise
- Compound vs compound
- Compress vs compress
- Comprise vs compromise
- Conceive vs. perceive
- Concerning - Usage, Meaning & Synonyms
- Conches vs. conchs
- Condemn vs. condone
- Conditionals - Uses, Examples
- Conditionals Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Conduct vs conduct
- Confidant vs. confidante
- Conflate vs conflagrate
- Conflict of interest
- Congruent vs. congruous
- Conjunctions to start sentences
- Connect the Dots—A Simple Idiom for Analysis
- Connexion
- Connote vs. denote
- Consolation vs constellation
- Console vs console
- Consonance vs assonance
- Conspiracy or collusion
- Constant vs consistent
- Construct vs construct
- 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
- Contingency vs contingent
- Continual vs. Continuous - Usage, Difference & Examples
- Contract a disease or contact a disease
- Contractions
- Contronym and auto-antonym
- Convict vs convict
- Convivial vs congenial
- Convocation, commencement or invocation
- Cook the Books – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Cool as a Cucumber - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Cooler Heads Prevail – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Coon’s Age—The Troubled History of an Idiom
- Coop, coup or coupe
- Cooperate or Co-Operate – What's the Difference?
- Coordinate adjectives
- Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives - Examples & Worksheet
- Copy Edit or Copyedit - Which is Correct?
- Copy Editing Test - Can you Pass This Quiz?
- Copyright vs. copywrite
- Copywriter vs. Copy Editor - What's the Difference?
- Coral vs. corral
- Cord vs. Chord - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Cornet vs. coronet
- Correspondence vs correspondents
- Cosmetology vs. cosmology
- Cosy vs. cozy
- Could have, could've or could of
- Could Have, Should Have & Would Have Exercises
- Could Have, Should Have, and Would Have - Examples
- Council vs. Counsel - Difference & Examples
- Counsel vs consul
- Counselor vs. Counsellor – What's the Difference?
- Countable Nouns - List of Examples
- Coup de grace
- Cover all the bases
- Covert vs overt
- Coward vs. Cowered
- Crack down vs. crackdown
- Crack the Whip - Origin & Meaning
- Crapshoot
- Creative Writing—Exploring Characters and Plots
- Crèche and manger
- Credible vs. credulous
- Credible, creditable or credulous
- Creeped or Crept - What's the Difference?
- Crème De La Crème—Origin & Meaning
- Crevasse vs. crevice
- Crick (variant of creek)
- Crier vs. cryer
- Crime doesn't pay
- Criteria, criterion
- Criticise or Criticize (+ Criticised & Criticising)
- Crooked vs crooked
- Cross the Line – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Cross to Bear - Origin & Meaning
- Crossing the Rubicon – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Crueler or crueller, cruelest or cruellest
- Crumby vs. crummy
- Cry All the Way to the Bank – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Cry Wolf – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Crying Over Spilled Milk Idiom—Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Cul-de-Sac - Usage, Meaning & Spelling
- Culpable vs liable
- Cum
- Curate's Egg – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Curb vs. kerb
- Curly Braces Punctuation - Is It Brackets or Braces?
- Currently – Correct Usage, Grammar and Examples
- Curricula vs curriculums
- Curry Favor—An Idiom Behind the Mix-Up
- Cursor vs curser
- Curtsy vs. Courtesy - Difference & Meaning
- Custom vs costume
- Customise vs. Customize – What's the Difference?
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
- Cut the Mustard - Meaning and Origin
- Cut to the Chase - Meaning & Origin
- Cut to the quick
- Cut Your Losses – Origin & Meaning
- Cut-throat
- Cute as a Button – Origin and Meaning
- Cyber-
- Daily grind
- Dam vs. Damn - What's the Difference?
- Damn the Torpedoes – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Damning With Faint Praise – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dampen, damper, dampener
- Dance on someone's grave
- Danglers
- Dangling modifier
- Dashes - Usage & Examples
- Data Is or Data Are? – The Singular vs. Plural Debate
- Dawned on Me – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Days vs. Daze
- De facto
- Dead as a Doornail - Origin and Meaning
- Dead End – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead Man Walking - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead Meat – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dead set, dead-set, deadset
- Dead to Rights – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Deadbeat - Definition & Meaning
- Deaf vs deft
- Dealed or Dealt - What's the Past Tense of Deal?
- Debark or disembark
- Decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon and biathlon
- Decent vs. descent
- Deceptively
- Deciphering The 'Movers And Shakers' Idiom: A Full Guide
- Deck the halls
- Declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative sentences
- Decoding 61 Romantic Idioms: The Language of Love
- Decoding Under the Radar—From Unnoticed to Understood
- Deduce vs. induce
- Deduct vs deduce
- Deep-seeded vs. deep-seated
- Deepnet, darknet and deep web
- Deer in the Headlights - Origin & Meaning
- Deer vs deers
- Defence vs. Defense – Which One to Use?
- 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
- Deliberate vs deliberate
- Delude vs dilute
- Demagogue vs demigod
- Demeanor or demeanour
- Demon vs daemon
- Demonstrative Pronouns Definition and Examples - This, That, These, Those
- Demur vs. demure
- Dent vs dint
- Deplane or disembark
- Depose vs dispose
- Deposition vs disposition
- Depository vs. repository
- Depravation vs deprivation
- Deprecate vs. depreciate
- Descendant vs. descendent
- Desert vs. Desert - Usage & Meaning
- Despite vs. In Spite Of - Difference & Meaning
- Destroy vs. destruct
- Detract vs. distract
- Developing a Unique Voice: How to Start Your College Essay Authentically
- Developmental Editing vs Copy Editing: What's the Difference?
- Devil Take the Hindmost—A Reflection of Human Nature
- Deviled vs devilled
- Dew, do and due
- Dharma and karma
- Dialectal vs. dialectical
- Dialogue vs dialog
- Diametrically opposed
- Diamond in the rough
- Diaspora
- Dice vs. Die – Which Is Singular and Which Is Plural?
- Dichotomy vs paradox
- Dickensian
- Didactic vs pedantic
- Die on the Vine – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Dietician vs. Dietitian - Meaning & Correct Spelling
- Difference Between Tell and Say - Examples
- Difference vs deference
- Different from, different than, different to
- Digest vs digest
- Dike or Dyke - What's the Difference?
- Dingo's breakfast
- Dire straits
- Dire vs. Dyer
- Directional words
- Dirty Pool – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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
- Dispatch vs. Despatch – Meaning, Uses and Examples
- Dispense with vs. dispose of
- Disposed vs. predisposed
- Dissatisfied or unsatisfied
- Dissociate vs. disassociate
- Distinct vs. distinctive
- Distrust vs. mistrust
- Ditto and ditto mark
- Divers vs. diverse
- Divorcée, divorcé, divorcee
- Do a 180 or do a 360
- Do a Houdini and pull a Houdini
- Do and Make Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Do apologize
- Do as I say, not as I do
- Do right by
- Do the Math – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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 Stick to Your Guns Imply Refusal to Compromise in English?
- 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 – Origin & Meaning
- Dog Whistle – Idiom, Origin & Meaning in English
- Dog-Eat-Dog and Doggy Dog - Meaning & Examples
- Doggy Bag Idiom—More Than Just a Takeout Term
- Dogs of War – Origin and Meaning
- Doh, doe or dough
- 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 Give Up the Ship – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Don't Hold Your Breath – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out – Origin & Meaning
- 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 and Meaning
- Don't Shoot the Messenger—The Ultimate Blame Game
- Don't's or don'ts
- Donner or Donder
- Doomsday vs Domesday
- Doppelgänger
- Dos or do's
- Double dog dare
- Double entendre
- Double vs. redouble
- Double-Check - Usage & Meaning
- Doublethink, doublespeak or double-talk
- Doubtlessly
- Doughnut vs. Donut - What's the Difference?
- Dove vs dove
- Dove vs. dived
- Down in the Dumps – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Down in the Mouth – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Down the Hatch – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Down the Rabbit Hole—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Down the Road - Meaning & Synonyms
- Down to the Wire – Meaning & Origin
- Downplay or play down
- Downright vs outright
- Doxing and doxxing
- Draft vs. draught
- Dragged vs. drug
- Dragging Feet & Heels—Navigating the Nuances
- Draw a Bead on – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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?
- Dreidel or dreidl
- Dribble vs. drivel
- Dribs and drabs
- Drier vs. dryer
- Drink the Kool-Aid
- Drink, Drank or Drunk – What is the Past Tense Of Drink?
- Drive-by
- Droid vs. Android vs. Robot - What's the Difference?
- Droll
- Drop a Dime (or Dropping Dimes) - Origin & Meaning
- Drop a Line – Meaning & Origin
- Drop in the Bucket - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Drop off vs. drop-off (vs. dropoff)
- Drop the Ball – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Dropping Like Flies – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Drown Your Sorrows – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Dry Run - Meaning & Origin
- Du jour
- Duck tape or duct tape
- Ducks in a Row – Meaning and Origin
- Due to vs because of
- Duly Noted - Meaning, Usage & Examples
- Duly vs dully
- Dumpster vs dumpster
- Duplicate vs duplicity
- Duplicate vs replicate
- During the course of
- Dwarfs vs. dwarves
- Dwelled vs. dwelt
- Dystopia or utopia
- E-book, ebook, eBook
- E-mail vs. email
- E. coli
- Each other vs. one another
- Eager Beaver – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Earnest vs Ernest
- Earthy vs. earthly
- Easier Said Than Done – Meaning & Origin
- Easter egg
- Easy On the Eyes – Origin and Meaning
- Easy pickings
- Eat Crow – Meaning & Origin
- Eat One's Words – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Eat, drink and be merry
- Eating Out of Your Hand – Meaning & Origin
- Eaves vs. Eves - Difference & Meaning
- Ecclesiastical and ecclesiastic
- Economic vs Economical - Definition & Examples
- Editing & Proofreading Worksheets
- Eek vs. eke
- Effable vs affable
- Effete
- Egging Someone On—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Eggnog
- Either vs ether
- Elaborate vs elaborate
- Elder, Eldest or Oldest - What's the Difference?
- Electric, electrical, electronic
- Elephant in the Room - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Elfs vs. elves
- Elicit vs. Illicit - Difference & Examples in a Sentence
- Elvis Has Left the Building – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Em Dash Usage and Examples
- Embedded Questions - Definition, Examples
- Emeritus - Meaning & Definition
- Emigrate vs Immigrate - What's the Difference?
- Eminent vs. immanent vs. imminent
- Emission vs omission
- 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
- Enclose vs. inclose
- End All Be All—The Pursuit of Ultimate Goals
- End of the Line – Meaning & Origin
- End on a high note and go out on a high note
- End Run – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Endear or Endeared – Usage and Definition
- Endeavor vs. endeavour
- Ending a Sentence With a Preposition (Worksheet Included)
- Energize vs energise
- Enervate vs. innervate
- Enfant Terrible – Meaning & Origin
- England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
- English moods (imperative, indicative, and subjunctive)
- Engrained vs. Ingrained - Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Enmity vs animosity
- Enormity vs. enormousness
- Enquire vs. inquire
- Enrol vs. Enroll – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- Ensconce vs sconce
- Enthuse
- Entitled vs. titled
- Entrance vs entrance
- Entree vs entrée
- Enunciation vs. Annunciation - Difference & Meaning
- Envelop vs. envelope
- Envision vs. envisage
- Epic vs epoch
- Epigram vs. epigraph
- Epithet vs sobriquet
- Epitome vs epiphany
- Eponymous
- Equable, equatable, equitable
- Equivalence vs. equivalency
- Equivocate vs prevaricate
- Ere vs. err
- Ergo
- Erratum, addendum and corrigendum
- Erupt vs irrupt
- Esoteric vs archaic
- Especial vs. Special - Difference & Meaning
- Especially vs specially
- Espresso vs. expresso
- Esprit de corps
- Essential Freelance Writer Skills—From Pitches to Paychecks
- Estimate vs estimate
- Estimate vs. estimation
- Estimation or approximation
- Et Al. – Meaning, Punctuation and Usage With Examples
- Et cetera (etc.)
- Ethereal vs ephemeral
- Ethical Dilemmas in AI-Assisted Learning Environments
- Ethics vs. Morals - Definition, Difference & Examples
- Ethnic vs ethic
- Evacuate
- Evaluating Paper Writing Services: What to Look For
- Even Keeled or Even Keel - Usage & Meaning
- Even Steven or Even Stevens – Meaning & Origin
- Ever and Never - Usage, List of Examples
- Every Nook and Cranny – Meaning & Origin
- Everyday vs. Every Day - What's the Difference?
- Evidence vs evince
- Ewe, yew or you
- Ex post facto
- Exacerbate vs exasperate
- Exact revenge vs extract revenge
- Exalt vs. exult
- Excelsior and wood wool
- Excited vs exited
- Exclamation Point (!) - Learn How to Use it Properly
- Exculpate vs exonerate
- Excuse vs excuse
- Exemplary – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- Exhibit vs. exhibition
- Existent vs. extant
- Existential - Meaning & Definition
- Expatriate vs ex-patriot
- Expectant vs. expecting
- Expedient vs expeditious
- Expedite vs expedient
- Expend vs. Expand - Difference & Definition
- Expiration date and expiry date
- Exploitive vs. Exploitative - Definition & Etymology
- Expose vs exposé
- Expound vs expand
- Extant vs extent
- Extol vs extoll
- Extract vs extract
- Extraordinaire
- Exuberant vs exorbitant
- Eyeteeth – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- Face the Music - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Faeces vs feces
- Fain vs. feign
- Fair and Square - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fair Dinkum – Meaning & Origin
- Fair to Middling vs. Fair to Midland
- Fair vs. fare
- Fairweather Friend or Fair-Weather Friend – Meaning & Origin
- Fairy vs ferry
- Fairy-tale ending
- Fait accompli
- Fall From Grace - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fall on one's sword
- Fall Through the Cracks or Slip Through the Cracks
- Fallow vs follow
- Falseness vs. Falsity vs. Falsehood - Meaning & Definition
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- Famous Last Words – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Famous, infamous and notorious
- Fantods
- Far East, Middle East, Near East
- Far-fetched - Meaning & Definition
- Faraway vs far away
- Farther vs. Further - Difference, Definition & Examples
- Fastly
- Fate vs. Fete - Homphones, Meaning & Examples
- Fatuous vs facetious
- Faux
- Faux pas
- Favorite or Favourite - Meaning & Difference in Spelling
- Favour or Favor – Which Spelling to Use?
- Fay, fey
- Faze vs. phase
- Fearful vs. fearsome
- Feckless vs reckless
- Feeling My Oats – Meaning & Origin
- Feet of Clay - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fell Into My Lap—When Life Surprises You
- Fell Off the Back of a Truck – Origin & Meaning
- Feminity vs. femininity
- Fervent vs. fervid
- Fete
- Few vs. Phew
- Fewer vs. Less
- Fiancé vs. fiancée
- Fiber vs. fibre
- Fictional vs. fictitious
- Fiddle While Rome Burns – Meaning & Origin
- Fie
- Fifteen minutes of fame
- Fight Fire With Fire – Origin and Meaning
- Figment of one’s imagination
- Figures of speech
- File, Phial or Faille
- Filet vs. fillet
- Final vs finale
- Finale vs finally
- Financer vs. financier
- Fine Tooth Comb – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Finely or finally
- Finger Pointing or Pointing Finger – Meaning and Examples
- Finger-licking good
- Fingers Crossed - Origin & Meaning
- Finite Verbs - Definition and Examples
- Fire and Brimstone - Origin & Meaning
- Fire in the hole vs fire in the hold
- Fireplace vs hearth
- Firing on All Cylinders – Meaning and Origin
- 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, third-world
- Firsthand and secondhand vs first-hand and second-hand
- Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, Etc.
- Fiscal vs physical
- Fish or Cut Bait – Meaning, Synonym and Origin
- Fish or Fishes - What is the Plural of Fish?
- Fit the Bill or Fill the Bill – Meaning and Origin
- Fit To Be Tied – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Fit vs. fitted
- Five o’clock shadow
- Flack vs. flak
- Flagellants vs flatulence
- Flagship - Meaning & Definition
- Flap one’s gums
- Flautist vs. flutist
- Flavor of the Month – Meaning and Origin
- Flavor vs. flavour
- Flesh and Blood – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Flied - Meaning & Definition
- Flip one's lid vs. flip one's wig
- Flora and fauna
- Flounder vs. founder
- Flour and Flower - What's the Difference?
- Flu vs. flue
- Fly in the Ointment – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fly off the handle
- Fly the Coop – Meaning & Origin
- Foaming at the Mouth – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Foe vs. Faux
- Fold one's tent
- Foley
- Follow Suit – Meaning & Origin
- Follow up vs. Follow-up vs. Followup - Which is Correct?
- Font vs fount
- Food Coma - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Food for Thought – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
- Fool's errand
- Foolproof vs. full-proof
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- Foot in the Door — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Foot long
- Foot the Bill – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- Footloose and Fancy-Free — Meaning and Origin
- For all intensive purposes (for all intents and purposes)
- For all the marbles
- For Crying Out Loud – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- For God'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 – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Forewarned is forearmed
- Foreword vs. forward
- Former vs. Latter - Usage With Examples
- Formulas vs formulae
- Fortnight
- Fortune Favors the Bold and Fortune Favors the Brave
- Forty Winks – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Foul vs. Fowl - Difference & Meaning
- Fount Of Knowledge Or Wisdom VS Font Of Knowledge Or Wisdom
- Four-Flusher – Meaning & Origin
- Fourty or Forty – What's the Correct Spelling of 40?
- Fox guarding the hen house
- Fraud or defraud
- Fraught
- Free for All – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Free Rein or Free Reign - Which One Should You Use?
- Freegan and freeganism
- Freelance Writing Contracts—Navigating Negotiations
- Freelance Writing Course
- Freelance Writing vs. Traditional Employment—Which Path Is Right for You?
- Freelancer Financials—Tame Your Cash Flow
- French Accent Marks – Aigu, Grave and More
- French alphabet pronunciation
- French Days, Months and Seasons
- French noun gender
- French partitive article
- Freshwater vs. fresh water
- Friable vs. Fryable
- Friends With Benefits – Origin & Meaning in English
- Frivolity vs. frivolousness
- Frog in the Throat – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- From Pillar to Post - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- From Soup to Nuts – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- From the Bottom of My Heart – Meaning & Origin
- From the Get-Go - Origin & Meaning
- From Words to Rights—Copyright Law for Writers
- Fueled/fueling vs. fuelled/fuelling
- Fulfil vs. fulfill
- Full of Beans – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Full of Yourself – Meaning & Origin
- Full stop vs. period
- Full-Court Press – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Full-Fledged or Fully Fledged - Meaning & Difference
- Fulsome
- Fungi vs. funguses
- Funner, funnest
- Furlough
- Furor vs. furore
- Futile vs feudal
- Future Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples
- Future Perfect Exercises (With Printable PDF)
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- Futz vs. Putz or Futzing Around vs. Putzing Around
- Gaelic vs Gallic
- Gaff vs. gaffe
- Gage, gauge, and gouge
- Gainsay
- Gaiter vs. Gator
- Gall or Gaul - Definition & Difference
- Gallop vs Gallup
- Gallop vs. Galop
- Galore - Meaning & Definition
- Gambit
- Game Changer – Origin and Meaning
- Game the system
- Gamut vs gambit
- Gantlet vs. gauntlet
- Gaol vs. jail
- Garbage In, Garbage Out—Impact on Productivity
- Gargle vs. gurgle
- Gargoyle or grotesque
- Garner vs garnish
- Garnish vs garnishee
- Garrote, garrotte, or garotte
- Gaslighting - Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Gasses vs. Gases – Which Is the Correct Plural?
- Gatecrasher
- Gaudy vs. gawdy
- Gel or Jell vs. Jelled or Gelled - Difference & Meaning
- Gemology vs gemmology
- Gender vs. sex
- Generalize vs generalise
- Genes vs. Jeans
- Gentle vs genteel
- Geographic vs geographical
- Gerund - Definition and Sentence Examples
- Gerunds and Infinitives - Rules, Examples
- Gerunds and Infinitives Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Gesture vs jester
- Gesundheit
- Get a Handle On – Meaning & Origin
- Get a Word in Edgewise or Edgeways – Meaning & Origin
- Get back on the horse
- Get in on the Ground Floor – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Get one's dander up or get one's dandruff up
- Get one’s back up
- Get out of Dodge
- Get religion
- Get Someone's Goat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Get the Ball Rolling – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Get the Lead Out – Meaning & Origin
- Get the Scoop or Inside Scoop – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Get the skinny
- Get together vs get-together
- Get up in one's grill
- Get Your Hands Dirty – Meaning & Origin
- Get, Got or Gotten - When & How to Use Correctly
- Getaway vs get away
- Getting Hitched – Origin and Meaning
- Ghost in the Machine – Meaning & Origin
- Ghost vs ghoul
- Gibberish
- Gift (as a verb)
- Gild vs. guild
- Gilding the Lily—An Idiom from Florals to Fables
- Gimlet eye and gimlet cocktail
- Gimme
- Gin Up or Ginned Up – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Ginger Software—Your Personal Editor & Proofreader
- Ginger vs. ProWritingAid
- Gird Your Loins - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Gist or Jist - Difference & Meaning
- Gist vs jest
- Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile
- Give it the old college try
- Give up the ghost
- Give Yourself Away – Meaning & Origin
- Glamour vs. glamor
- Gleam vs glean
- Glib
- Gloves Are Off and Take the Gloves Off — Meaning & Origin
- Go Big or Go Home - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go down a treat
- Go for a song
- Go for Broke – Meaning & Origin
- Go for the Jugular—Zero In on One's Weakness
- Go great guns
- Go Haywire - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go off half-cocked and go off at half-cock
- Go Off the Rails – Origin and Meaning
- Go pear-shaped
- Go the Distance — Meaning & Origin
- Go The Extra Mile - Idiom, Meaning & Examples
- Go to ground
- Go to Seed – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Go to the Dogs - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Go to the Mat—A Metaphor for Resilience
- Go with the Flow - Origin & Meaning
- Gobbledygook
- Gobsmacked
- Goes without saying
- Going Against the Grain - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Going Bananas - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Going Dutch or Dutch Treat — Meaning & Origin
- Going to Hell in a Handbasket - Origin & Meaning
- Gold Digger – Origin and Meaning
- Golden ticket
- Gone to Pot – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Gonna
- Good enough for government work and close enough for government work
- Good Riddance – Meaning & Origin
- Good vs well
- Goodly
- Goody Two Shoes - Origin & Meaning
- Goose Is Cooked — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Gourmet vs gourmand
- Graduate vs graduate
- Graffiti
- Grammar vs. Punctuation - What's the Difference?
- Grammar vs. Syntax - What's the Difference?
- Grammarist
- Grammarist Verb Tense Course - TW - Landing
- Grammarly Free vs. Premium vs. Business
- Grammarly Plagiarism Checker vs. Turnitin
- Grammarly Review - Is Premium Worth It?
- Grammarly vs Sapling Review - Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Chegg Review - 2022 Comparison
- Grammarly vs. Easybib - Which is Best?
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- Grammarly vs. Perfectit Review - Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. PERRLA - Which is Best?
- Grammarly vs. Prowritingaid - Which is Better?
- Grammarly vs. Slick Write Review
- Grammarly vs. Wordrake Review - Which is Better?
- Grasping at straws or clutching at straws
- Grate on one’s nerves
- Grate or Great - Homophones, Meaning & Usage
- Grateful vs. gratified
- Gratis, gratuitous and gratuity
- Gravy Train - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Gray or Grey - Are Both Correct?
- Grease the Palm – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Great Scott!
- Green Around the Gills – A Simple Illness Expression
- Green Thumb or Green Fingers — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Green-Eyed Monster - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Grill vs. grille
- Grinch - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Grinded
- Grok
- Gruel vs grueling
- Guarantee vs guaranty
- Guide to Choosing Good Argumentative Essay Topics
- Guinea Pig — Meaning, Idiom & Expression Origin
- Guise vs. Guys
- Gumption
- Gussied Up—Meaning & Origin
- Guyline vs guideline
- Habit vs habitat
- Hail vs. hale
- Hair of the Dog – Idiom, Origin and 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
- Hall vs haul
- Hallow vs. hollow
- Halloween or Hallowe'en
- Halve or Half – Difference, Usage and Meaning
- Ham-Fisted and Ham-Handed – Meaning and Origin
- Hamming It Up – Meaning & Origin
- Hand Over Fist—Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Hand to Mouth – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Hand-wash
- Handful, handfuls
- Handicap vs. handicapped
- Hands down
- Hands on or hands-on
- Hang Out To Dry - Definition & Examples
- Hangdog
- Hanged vs. Hung - Usage, Difference & Examples
- Hangry - Origin, Meaning & Definition
- Happenstance - Usage & Meaning
- Happy median or happy medium
- Harbinger
- Harbor vs. harbour
- Hard (Bitter) Pill to Swallow—The Unpleasant Truth
- Hardy vs. hearty
- Hark, harken, and hearken
- Hart vs. Heart – Difference in Meaning and Spelling
- Haste Makes Waste - Origin & Meaning
- Hats Off (to You) - Idiom & Meaning In English
- Haughty vs hottie
- Have a beef
- Have a Cow – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Have a target on one's back
- Have one's ears pinned back vs pin one's ears back
- 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
- Head Over Heels - Origin & Meaning
- Head someone off at the pass and cut someone off at the pass
- Heads Will Roll – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Heads-Up - Usage, Meaning & Definition
- Heal vs. heel (and bring to heel)
- Healthcare vs. Health Care – Which One Is It?
- Healthful vs. healthy
- Hear vs. Here – Difference, Examples
- Heard vs herd
- Heavens to Murgatroyd – Idiom, Definition and Origin
- Hedge Your Bets – Meaning & Origin
- Heel, heal and he'll
- Heighth
- Hell for Leather and Hell-Bent for Leather – Meaning & Origin
- Helpless vs hapless
- Hem and haw or hum and haw
- Hemingway Editor Review - Is it Any Good?
- Hence - Usage, Definition & Examples
- Heretofore or hitherto
- Heroin vs. heroine
- Heterogeneous vs. heterogenous
- Hew vs. hue
- Hi vs. High - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Hieroglyph vs hierograph
- High five
- High Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- High-Handed – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Highbrow vs. Lowbrow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Higher vs hire
- Highfalutin
- Hijinks or high jinks
- Himself vs hisself
- Hindsight is 20/20 and 20/20 hindsight
- Hinky
- Hippopotami, hippopotamuses, hippos
- Historic vs. Historical - Usage and Examples
- Hit a Brick or Hit a Wall – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hit It Off – Meaning and Origin
- Hit Pay Dirt – Origin and Meaning
- Hit the bricks
- Hit the Deck – Meaning and Origin
- Hit the Ground Running—Origin & Meaning
- Hive mind
- Hoar vs. Whore
- Hoard vs. horde
- Hobo, tramp, bum, or gutter punk
- Hobson's Choice – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Hocus-pocus
- Hodgepodge vs hotchpotch
- Hogwash - Origin & Definition
- Hokey-pokey, hokey-cokey and hokey-tokey
- Hold (Down) the Fort – Responsibility or Just a Simple Task?
- Hold My Beer – Origin, Meaning and Usage
- Hold someone's feet to the fire
- Hold Your Horses - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Holey vs. holy
- Holly vs holy
- Holy vs. Wholly vs. Wholey - Difference & Meaning
- Home In and Hone In—Navigating Nuances
- Home In vs. Hone In – Meaning and When to Use Them
- Home school vs. homeschool (vs. home-school)
- Homely vs. homey
- Homily vs. Sermon - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Homo sapiens
- Homogenous vs. homogeneous
- Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs - Differences and Examples
- Honesty is the best policy
- Honor among thieves and no honor among thieves
- Honor vs. Honour - Difference & Meaning
- Hoosegow - Origin & Meaning
- Hoover vs. vacuum
- Hooves or hoofs
- Hop, Skip, and Jump – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hope or hopes
- Hoping vs hopping
- Horn of plenty and cornucopia
- Horse of a Different Color—Symbolizing a New Topic
- Horsey, horsy, horsie
- Hot Mess - Meaning & Definition
- Hot Potato – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hot spot or hotspot
- Hot to Trot – Origin and Meaning
- Hour vs our
- House of Cards – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- House vs house
- How and When to Properly Use a Semicolon [;] - With Examples
- How and When to Use a Colon (With Examples)
- How Long Does It Take To Proofread 1000+ Words
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- How the Tables Have Turned – A Complete Reversal
- How to Add and Use Grammarly in Google Docs
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- How to Add Grammarly To PowerPoint (With Images)
- How to Become a Proofreader—Path to Precision
- How to Check Grammar and Spelling in Google Docs
- How to Correctly Use "Beck and Call" in Your Conversations
- How to Edit a Book - 9 Pro Tips (Checklist Included)
- How to Edit Quotes
- How to Hyphenate an Age
- How to Improve Writing Skills for Students in 7 Easy Steps
- How to Make a Last Name Plural or Possessive - Rules & Examples
- How to Make Edits and Track Changes in Word
- How to Make Grammarly Work With Overleaf in 4 Simple Steps
- How to Prepare for a Proofreading Test—Useful Study Hacks
- How to Proofread Legal Documents Like a Pro
- How to Proofread Like A Professional - Tips to Get Better
- How to Properly List Things in a Sentence
- How to Punctuate Dialogue - Rules & Examples
- How to Spot a Legit Paper Writing Service
- How to Undo In Grammarly
- How to Use 'Would' - Guide & Examples
- How to Use "Etc." in Parentheses
- How to Use a Comma With Including
- How to Use Apostrophes in Contractions
- How to Use Attend to vs. Tend to Correctly
- How to Use Cannot See the Forest for the Trees Correctly
- How to Use Commas With "As Well As"
- How to Use Commas with Names and Titles Correctly
- How To Use Cue vs. Queue Correctly
- How to Use Forecast vs. Forecasted Correctly
- How to Use Get Down to Brass Tacks (Tax?) Correctly
- How to Use Hit the Hay and Hit the Sack – Comparing Sleep Idioms
- How to Use Hope Correctly - Examples
- How to Use Learn the Ropes Effectively – Decoding the English Idiom
- How to Use Learnings Correctly
- How to Use Pay Your Dues to Express Hard Work and Experience
- How to Use Perchance Correctly
- How to Use Semicolons in a List - Examples
- How to Use So and Such - Examples
- How to Use Stank vs. Stunk Correctly
- How To Use Transgender vs. Transsexual vs. Transvestite Correctly
- How to Use Wish - Examples
- How to Write Compelling Headlines—Craft Irresistible Titles
- How's it going
- Hubris
- Hullabaloo
- Humor or Humour – What's the Difference?
- Hump Day - Origin & Meaning
- Humus vs. hummus
- Hunker Down – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Hunt-and-peck
- Hurrah, hooray, hurray
- Hurtle vs. Hurdle – Difference and Definition
- Hybrid vs highbred
- Hygge
- Hymn vs him
- Hyperbole
- Hyphen Rules And Usage With Examples
- I can live with that
- I Could Care Less - Usage & Meaning
- I or me
- I Rest My Case—From Courtrooms to Conversations
- I Smell Something Fishy – An Idiom For Indicating Suspicion
- I Wasn't Born Yesterday – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- I.e vs. E.g - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- I've Got Your Number – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- I’ll eat my hat
- Ibid vs idem
- Ice tea vs. iced tea
- Icing on the Cake – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Idea vs. Ideal - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Ideation vs idea
- Identifying Subjects and Predicates
- Ides of March
- Idiom vs colloquialism
- Idle Hands Are the Devil's Workshop or Playground Saying
- If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It – Meaning and Origin
- If need be or if needs be
- If the Shoe Fits, Wear It – Meaning and Origin
- If you can't beat them, join them
- If you will
- Ilk
- Illegible vs. unreadable
- Imbibe vs imbue
- Imitate vs emulate
- Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
- Immaculate Conception vs. virgin birth
- Immolate vs emulate
- Immunity vs. impunity
- Impair vs impede
- Impassable vs. impassible
- Impassive vs. passive
- Impending vs. pending
- Imperial vs empirical
- Impinge vs. infringe
- Imposter vs. impostor
- Impractical vs impracticable
- Impromptu or improvised
- Improvise vs. Improvize - Which Is Correct?
- Impudent vs imprudent
- Impugn vs. impute
- In a Bind – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Heartbeat – Meaning, Synonyms and Origin
- In a Jiffy – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- In a manner of speaking
- In a Nutshell – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Pickle – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In a Vacuum – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In Any Way, Shape or Form – Meaning and Origin
- In Clover – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In due course or in due time
- In Excess Of - Usage & Meaning
- In Fine Fettle—Origin & Meaning
- In High Cotton—Exploring an Idiom of Wealth and Success
- In Hot Water – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In kind
- In Like Flynn – Meaning and Origin
- In My Element Idiom Explained—Defining Comfort
- In One Ear and Out the Other – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- In Over My Head – An Overwhelming Challenge
- In Spades—Origin & Meaning
- In Terms Of - Usage & Meaning
- In the affirmative
- In the Cards or On the Cards – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In the course of
- In the hopper
- 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 and Meaning
- In the Pink – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- In the Process of - Meaning & Definition
- In the Red – Meaning, Origin, and Examples
- In the Weeds – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- In This Day in Age or Day and Age - Usage & Meaning
- Inane vs insane
- Incase or encase
- Incense vs incense
- Incent vs. Incentivize vs. Incentivise - Meaning & Difference
- Incidence vs. incidents
- Incipient or inchoate
- Incipient vs. insipient (vs. insipid)
- Inclement vs. Inclimate – What's the Difference?
- Include, exclude or occlude
- Incommunicado
- Incomparable vs. uncomparable
- Incomprehensive or incomprehensible
- Incredible vs. incredulous
- Indefatigable and defatigable
- Indefinite Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Indeterminate vs indeterminable
- Indexes or Indices – The Plural Debate
- Indian corn
- Indian Giver – A Simple Phrase or a Cultural Dilemma?
- Indian Summer - Origin & Definition
- Indict vs indite
- Indirect Questions - Examples
- Indirect Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Indubitably vs undoubtedly
- Inequality vs. inequity
- Inequity vs. iniquity
- Inexplicable vs. unexplainable
- Infect vs. infest
- Inference vs interference
- Infinitive of Purpose — Examples
- Infinitives - Uses, Definition & Examples
- Infraction vs infarction
- Infuse vs suffuse
- Inherent vs inherit
- Inn vs. In
- Innate vs. Enate
- Inside baseball
- Insofar (in so far)
- Installation vs. installment
- Instalment or Installment – What's the Difference?
- Instantly vs. instantaneously
- Instigate vs incite
- Instill vs install
- Instinctive vs. instinctual
- Intellectual property
- Inter-, intra-
- Intercourse - Meaning & Definition
- Interment vs. internment
- Intermural, intramural and extramural
- Intern vs inter
- Internal vs eternal
- 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?
- Inventive vs innovative
- Inversion Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Inversion in English Grammar - Examples
- Invision or Envision – Difference and Definition
- Invite (as a noun)
- Invoke vs. Evoke - What's the Difference?
- Ipso Facto – Meaning and Examples
- Ironic
- Ironical - Usage, Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Irregular plural nouns
- Irregular Verbs - Uses, Definition & Examples
- Irregular Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
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- Is "President" Capitalized?
- Is "Vice President" Capitalized And Hyphenated?
- Is Costed a Word? What is the Past Tense of Cost?
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- Is It At the End of My Rope or At the End of My Tether?
- Is It Backhanded Compliment or Left-Handed Compliment?
- Is It Center or Centre? - Meaning and Difference in Spelling
- Is it Flier or Flyer? – What's the Difference?
- Is It God Speed or Godspeed? - Meaning & Usage
- Is It Junky or Junkie? – Meaning and Definition
- Is It Savy or Savvy? - Definition & Correct Spelling
- Is Run of the Mill Really About Being Just Plain Average?
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- Isle or Aisle - Usage, Difference & Meaning
- It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings - Origin & Meaning
- It And There - Usage, Difference
- It Is What It Is - Origin & Meaning
- It Takes a Village - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- It Takes One to Know One – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- It Takes Two to Tango - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- It's a Wash – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- It's All Greek To Me – Understanding Difficult Idioms
- It's curtains for you
- It's not rocket science
- It's Raining Cats and Dogs – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- It's the thought that counts
- Italics (when to italicize)
- Iteration
- Its vs. It's – What's the Difference?
- Ivory Tower - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Jack-in-the-box
- Jalousie window vs louvre window
- Jam vs. jamb
- Janus-faced
- Jaundiced eye
- Je Ne Sais Quoi (or Jenesequa) - Meaning In English
- Jersey vs guernsey
- Jewelry vs. jewellery
- Jiggery-pokery
- Jingle vs jangle
- Jinx - Origin, Meaning & Examples
- John Doe, Joe Bloggs and Fred Nerk
- John Hancock and John Henry
- Johnny on the Spot - Origin & Meaning
- Johnny-Come-Lately – Meaning, Origin, and Examples
- Joie de Vivre - Origin & Meaning in English
- Joined At The Hip – How To Use This Phrase Accurately
- Joshing – Origin and Meaning
- Jot or tittle
- Joyful and joyous
- Judgement vs. Judgment - What's the Difference?
- Jump on the Bandwagon—The Art of Conformity
- Jump Ship – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jump the Gun - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Jump the Shark – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jump Through Hoops - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Jump-start
- Junction vs. juncture
- Junkyard Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Jury-rig, jerry-rig, jerry-built
- Just deserts vs. just desserts
- Juxtapose
- Kafkaesque
- Kakistocracy
- Kaleidoscope - Meaning, Spelling & Symbolism
- Kangaroo Court – Origin and Meaning
- Kaput
- Katy bar the door
- Keep an Ear to the Ground – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Keep at Bay – Meaning and Origin
- Keep it under your hat
- Keep Me Posted – Origin and Meaning
- Keep Your Chin Up – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled (Skinned) – Expressing Alertness and Focus
- Keep your shirt on and keep your hair on
- Keeping My Head Above Water—The Essence of Surviving Challenges
- Keeping Up with the Joneses—Peer Pressure in Disguise
- Kerfuffle vs brouhaha
- Keyed Up – Meaning and Origin
- 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
- Kid Gloves – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Kill Them With Kindness – Meaning and Origin
- Kin vs ken
- King of the Hill—Defining Dominance
- King's Ransom – Meaning and Origin
- King's X
- Kiss of Death – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Kiss the Ring – Meaning and Origin
- Knave vs nave
- Knee-high to a grasshopper
- Knee-Slapper – Origin and Meaning
- Knew or New - Homophones & Definition
- Knickers vs nickers
- Knight in Shining Armor - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Knight vs. Night - Homophones, Spelling & Meaning
- Knighted vs benighted
- Knit vs. knitted
- Knob vs nob
- Knock 'Em Dead - How to Wish Someone Good Luck
- Knock Me Down with a Feather—The Art of Amazement
- Knock on wood and touch wood
- Knock one for six
- Knock Your Socks Off – Meaning and Origin
- Knock Yourself Out – Idiom, Origin and 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?
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- Knuckle down and buckle down
- Knuckle sandwich
- Kodak Moments – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Kowtow
- Kudos - Origin, Usage & Meaning
- L’état, C’est Moi - Origin & Meaning in English
- La Dolce Vita – Origin and Meaning in English
- Labeled vs. labelled
- Labor vs. labour
- Ladybug and ladybird
- Lain vs. Lane
- Lair vs layer
- Laird vs lord
- Lambast vs. lambaste
- Land of Milk and Honey – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Languagetool vs. Grammarly
- Lap of Luxury—Origin & Meaning
- Laps vs. Lapse
- Lasagna vs. lasagne
- Last Resort - Origin & Meaning
- Later vs latter
- Latter vs ladder
- Laugh up one’s sleeve
- Laughing Stock – Usage, Meaning and Origin
- Lay an egg
- Lay Out vs. Layout - Usage & Difference
- Lay vs. Lie - Usage, Difference & List of Examples
- Laying It on Thick – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Leach or Leech - What's the Difference?
- Lead vs. Lead - What's the Difference?
- Lead-pipe cinch
- Lean vs. Lien
- Leaned or leant
- Leap of Faith - Origin & Meaning
- Leaped vs. leapt
- Learned vs. learnt
- Leave No Stone Unturned – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Leave someone holding the bag
- Led vs Lead - What's the Difference?
- Lede vs. Lead - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Leery vs leary
- Left in the Lurch - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Leftover vs. left over
- Legal Considerations of Plagiarism—From Faux Pas to Lawsuit
- Legal vs legit
- Legal Writing—Techniques for Effective Advocacy
- Legislator vs legislature
- Legitimate vs legitimitize
- Lended vs. lent
- Lentil vs. Lintel
- Lesser or lessor
- Lest
- Let Bygones Be Bygones - Meaning and Examples
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Let the chips fall where they may
- Let Your Hair Down – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lets vs. Let's - What's The Difference?
- Letter Names in the English Alphabet and How to Spell Them
- Levee vs. levy
- Licence or License - Meaning & Spelling
- Lick one's wounds
- Licorice vs. liquorice
- Lier or Liar - Meaning & Spelling
- Lieu vs. Loo
- Lieutenant
- Lifetime or life time
- Light vs. lite
- Lighted vs. lit
- Lightning in a Bottle - Origin & Meaning
- Lightning Rod – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Likable vs. likeable
- Like a bump on a log
- Like Clockwork – Describing a Perfect Plan
- Like gangbusters
- Like Oil and Water – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- Like taking candy from a baby
- Limelight vs spotlight
- Linchpin vs. lynchpin
- Line Editing vs. Copy Editing - What's the Difference?
- Linking Verbs - List, Examples
- Linking Verbs vs. Helping Verbs - Difference & Examples
- Linking Words of Contrast - List of Examples
- Lion's Share – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lip-sync and lip-synch
- Liquor vs liqueur
- List of 50+ English Suffixes With Examples & Worksheet
- 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 – Meaning, Uses and Examples
- 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)
- Lo and Behold or Low and Behold
- Loaded for Bear – Meaning, Idiom and Origin
- Loafs or loaves
- Loan vs lone
- Loath vs. loathe (vs. loth)
- Locavore
- Lock out vs lockout
- Lock, Stock, and Barrel – Idiom, Meaning, and Origin
- 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
- Long Story Short – The Removal of Unnecessary Details
- Longetivity vs. longevity
- Look before you leap
- Look out vs. lookout (vs. look-out)
- Looking Over Your Shoulder – Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Looks Good on Paper – Meaning and Origin
- Loonie, Loony, or Looney - What's the Difference?
- Loop de loop or loop the loop
- Loose vs. Lose - Difference & Meaning
- Lorry
- Lose one's marbles
- Lost in the Shuffle – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Lots of vs a lot of
- Lovable vs. loveable
- Love is blind
- Love Me, Love My Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Low-Hanging Fruit - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Low, lo or lowe
- Lower the boom
- Lowkey or Low-Key – Subtlety in Spotlight
- Lucid vs lucent
- Luck of the Draw – Meaning and Origin
- Lukewarm
- Luminary vs luminaria
- Luxuriant vs. luxurious
- Mach vs. Mock
- Machine gun vs. machine-gun
- Macintosh, mackintosh, McIntosh
- Maddening vs. madding
- Madder Than a Wet Hen – Used To Express Extreme Anger
- Magic bullet and silver bullet
- Magnum opus
- Main, mane and Maine
- Make do vs. Make Due – What's the Difference?
- Make Ends Meet or Make Both Ends Meet - Idiom & Meaning
- Make hay
- Make or break and make or mar
- Make or Do - Difference, Examples
- Makeup, make-up or make up
- Maleficent vs. malevolent
- Mall vs. Maul
- Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone – Origin and Meaning
- Man of the Cloth
- Maneuver vs. manoeuvre
- Manic vs maniac
- Mannequin, Manikin, or Manakin
- Manner vs. manor
- Mantel vs. mantle
- Many happy returns
- Mare vs mayor
- Marinade vs. marinate
- Mark My Words – Meaning and Origin
- Mark vs marque
- Marquee vs. Marquis
- Marry vs. merry
- Marsala vs masala
- Mask vs. Masque
- Massage vs message
- Masterful vs. masterly
- Materiel vs. material
- Math or Maths - Which One to Use?
- Matriculate vs graduate
- Matter of fact or matter-of-fact
- Matter of Fact vs. Fact of the Matter
- Maundy Thursday
- Maverick
- Maxima vs. maximums
- Maximise or Maximize – What's the Difference?
- Mayonnaise vs. mayonaise
- Meager vs Meagre - Definition & Examples
- Mealy-mouthed
- Meaning of Binomials in English - With Examples
- Means
- Meat, meet or mete
- Media vs. Mediums – What's the Difference?
- Meeple
- Melted vs. molten
- Melting Pot – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Memento Mori or Momento Mori - Origin & Meaning in English
- Men in White Coats – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Mensch
- Merry Christmas vs Happy Christmas
- Metaphoric vs. Metaphorical - What's the Difference?
- Meter vs. metre
- Methinks
- Mexican standoff
- Mic Drop - Origin, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- Mic vs. mike
- Mice vs. mouses
- Mickey Finn – A Simple English Phrase or a Hidden Danger?
- 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 words
- Mind over matter
- Mind vs mined
- Minima vs. minimums
- Minimize vs minimise
- Minimum vs minimal
- Minuet vs minute
- Minute vs. Minute – What's the Difference?
- 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
- Misogyny and misandry
- Missed vs. Mist
- Misspell vs. Mispell - Meaning & Correct Spelling
- Mixed bag
- Mob or demob
- Mobile, mobile, or Mobile
- Mobilize vs mobilise
- Modal Verbs - Uses, Examples
- Modal Verbs Exercises (With Printable Worksheet)
- Modal Verbs of Ability — Examples
- Modal Verbs of Obligation — Examples
- Modals of Possibility - List of Examples
- Modeling vs. modelling
- Modus operandi (m.o, MO)
- Mold vs. Mould – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- Mollusc vs. mollusk
- Mom vs mom
- Momager
- Monday Morning Quarterback – A Remarkable Display of Guesswork
- Monetize vs demonetize
- Money Is No Object – Meaning and Origin
- Money-grabbing vs. money-grubbing
- Monkey On Your Back – Meaning and Origin
- Moose vs. mooses
- Moose vs. Mousse
- Moot vs. mute
- Mop the Floor (With Someone) — Meaning, Uses, and Examples
- Morality vs mortality
- Morays vs. mores
- More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
- More vs moor
- Moreso
- Morning vs. Mourning - Meaning, Spelling & Difference
- Motherhood and apple pie and mom and apple pie
- Motive vs motif
- Moustache vs. mustache (vs. mustachio)
- Movable feast
- Movable vs. moveable
- Move Heaven and Earth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Move the goalposts and shift the goalposts
- Move the needle
- Mowed vs. mown
- Mr., Mrs., Ms. and Miss – Full Form and Meaning
- Much or Many - Usage, Difference & Examples
- Muchly
- Muckamuck, mucky-muck and muckety-muck
- Muddy the Waters – Idiom, Meaning, and Origin
- Muggle - Origin & Meaning
- Multitask - Meaning & Examples in a Sentence
- Mum's the Word - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Mumbo Jumbo – Origin and Meaning
- Murphy's Law, Sod's Law and Finagle's Law
- Must of (must've)
- Mutually Exclusive – Meaning and Examples in a Sentence
- My Cup Runneth Over – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- My dogs are barking
- My Name Is Mud – Meaning and Origin
- My Way or the Highway – Meaning and Origin
- Myriad
- Naked as a jaybird
- Name-Calling – Definition and Examples
- Nary a
- Nativity
- Naught vs. nought
- Nay, Ney, or Neigh - Difference & Meaning
- Ne'er-do-well
- Neat as a pin
- Neck and Neck Meaning and Examples
- Neck of the Woods – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Necktie party
- Need vs knead
- Needle vs nettle
- Nefarious
- Negative prefixes
- Neighbor or Neighbour – Which Spelling Is Correct?
- Neither or Either - What's the Difference?
- Neologism
- Nerd, Geek, or Dork - What's the Difference?
- Net neutrality
- Neutralise vs neutralize
- Nevertheless vs. Nonetheless - Difference & Definition
- New York Minute – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Newbie vs noob or n00b
- Newfangled
- Nib vs nub
- Nickel-and-Dime - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Nickname
- Nimby, nimbyism
- Nip in the Bud - Origin & Meaning
- Nitty-gritty
- No Bones About It – A Direct Statement or a Gentle Confirmation?
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished – Meaning and Origin
- No Guts, No Glory – Meaning and Origin
- No Harm, No Foul - Meaning & Origin
- No Holds Barred – Meaning and Origin
- No horse in the race and no dog in the fight
- No ifs, ands, or buts
- No Love Lost – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- No man is an island
- No Man's Land - Definition & Meaning
- No News Is Good News – Origin and Meaning
- No One, Noone or No-one - Difference & Examples
- No pain, no gain vs no pain, no game
- No Two Ways About It – Meaning and Origin
- No vs. Not - Usage, List of Examples
- Noblesse oblige
- Nock vs. Knock
- Noel or nowel
- Nomenclature
- Nominative or Subjective Case With Examples
- Non compos mentis
- Non sequitur
- Non-finite Verbs - Uses, Examples
- None are or none is
- None of Your Beeswax or Mind Your Beeswax - Origin & Meaning
- Nonplussed
- Nonprofit vs. not-for-profit (vs. non-profit)
- Normalcy vs. normality
- Nose vs. Knows
- Not All It's Cracked Up to Be – Meaning and Origin
- Not By A Long Chalk (Shot) – Far From Its Literal Mark
- Not hardly
- Not My Cup of Tea – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Not playing with a full deck
- 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
- Noxious vs obnoxious
- Nuclear family and extended family
- Number Sign - Rules and Examples
- Number vs number
- Number vs numeral
- Nun vs. None
- O vs. Oh - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Oar, ore and or
- Object lesson
- Object vs object
- Objects in Grammar – How to Identify (With Examples)
- Obliged vs. obligated
- Observance vs. observation
- Obsolescent vs. obsolete
- Ocher or ochre vs okra
- Ocher vs. ochre
- Octopuses vs. Octopi - What Is the Plural of Octopus?
- Odor or Odour - Meaning, Difference & Spelling
- Oeuvre – Usage and Meaning in English
- Off Of - Usage & Meaning
- Off the grid or off-grid
- Off the Hook—More Than Just an Escape
- Off the Rack (Peg)—A Simple Phrase for 'Ready-to-Wear'
- Off the record vs not for attribution
- Off The Wagon and On The Wagon - Meaning & Examples
- Off the Wall – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Off Your Rocker—Idioms of Eccentricity
- Off-kilter and out of kilter
- Offhand
- Oftentimes
- Oh Well - Usage & Meaning
- OK vs. Okay - Usage & Difference
- Old as Methuselah
- Old chestnut
- 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
- Olive branch
- Ombré, Ombre or Hombre
- Omelet vs. omelette
- On a lark
- On a Tear – Meaning and Origin
- On a Wing and Prayer - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- On Accident or By Accident - Usage & Examples
- On Cloud Nine - Origin & Meaning
- On fleek
- On the Back Foot – Meaning, Origin and Synonyms
- On the Ball—A Deep Dive into Competence
- On the Bubble – Meaning and Origin
- On the Clock – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- On the Fence - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- On the Fly – Meaning and Origin
- On the House – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- On the lam
- On the q.t.
- On the Rocks – Meaning and Origin
- On the Same Page - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- 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 - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Once in a lifetime vs once-in-a-lifetime
- One and the same, one in the same
- One Fell Swoop – Origin and Meaning
- One For the Books – Origin and Meaning
- One for the money, two for the show
- One good turn deserves another
- One hand washes the other
- One Size Fits All – An Idiom For Every Situation
- One-Horse Town - Meaning & Origin
- One-time vs. onetime
- One-Trick Pony – Meaning and Origin
- One-upmanship
- One's eyes are bigger than one's stomach
- Oneself vs. One's Self – Definition and Usage
- Online Portfolio Platforms—Creative Ways to Showcase Your Work
- Online vs. on-line
- Oompa Loompa
- Op-ed
- Open and shut case
- Open Class vs Closed Class Words - Meaning & Examples
- Open Secret – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Operationalise or operationalize
- Oppress, repress, suppress
- Oral vs. verbal
- Order of Adjectives — Rules, Chart
- 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
- Out of Left Field – Meaning and Origin
- Out of My League – Acknowledging Superiority or Just Self-Doubt
- 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 frying pan and into the fire
- Out of the Loop (In the Loop) – Indicating Ignorance or Knowledge?
- Out of the Woods – Idioms for Overcoming Difficulties
- Out of whole cloth
- Outset vs onset
- Over a Barrel - Origin & Meaning
- Over the Hump – Meaning and Origin
- Over the Top - Meaning & Origin
- Over- and under- (prefixes)
- Overlook vs look over
- Overly
- Overnight vs. over night
- Oversee vs overlook
- Oversees vs. Overseas
- Overtake, take over and takeover
- Overthink vs think over
- Overtime vs over time
- Overtones vs. undertones
- Own Up – Meaning, Usage and Examples
- p.d.q.
- Packed vs. Pact
- Packs vs pax
- Paean, paeon, peon
- Pail vs. Pale
- Paint The Town Red – How To Let Loose And Have Some Fun
- Pair vs. pare vs. pear
- Pajamas vs. pyjamas
- Palate, palette, pallet
- Pale in comparison
- Palpable vs palatable
- Pan Out – Origin & Meaning
- Panhandle
- Paper Tiger - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Par Excellence - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Par for the Course – Meaning and Origin
- Parameter vs perimeter
- Paramount vs. tantamount
- Pardon My French – A Polite Excuse or a Veil for Obscenity?
- Parentheses (Round Bracket) Use With Examples
- Parentheses or Parenthesis - What's the Difference?
- Parenthetical Phrases - Definition & Examples
- Pariah vs piranha
- Parlay vs. parley
- Parlor or parlour
- Parody vs parity
- Parol vs. Parole
- Parricide vs. patricide
- Part and parcel
- Participial prepositions
- Participle Clauses - Usage, List of Examples
- Pass muster vs pass mustard
- Pass with flying colors
- Passed vs. past
- Passerbys or passersby
- Passing strange
- Passing the Torch - How To Properly Transfer Responsibilities
- Passive Voice - Usage, Misuses
- Passive Voice Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Passive vs. Active Voice - Difference, Examples
- Past Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples
- Past Participle Adjectives - Uses & Examples
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses & Examples
- Past Perfect Tense - Uses, Examples
- Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Exercises
- Pastime vs past time
- Pasty vs pasty
- Pathetic vs apathetic
- Patience vs. Patients - Usage, Meaning & Spelling
- 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 - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Pay the Piper - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Pay Through the Nose – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Payback vs. pay back
- Payed vs. Paid - Definition, Difference & Examples
- Peaceable vs. peaceful
- Pearls of wisdom
- Peccadillo
- Pecking Order – Origin and Meaning
- Pediatric or paediatric
- Peer vs pier
- Penal vs. penile
- Penchant vs pension
- Pendant vs. Pendent - Meaning & Difference
- Penny for Your Thoughts – Origin and Meaning
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
- Peplum vs pablum
- Per Se or Per Say - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Percent vs. per cent
- Peremptory vs pre-emptory
- Perfect Storm - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Period Punctuation Rules and Examples
- Periodic vs. Periodical - Origin, Usage and Examples
- Perk vs perq
- Permit vs permit
- Pernickety vs. persnickety
- Perquisite vs. prerequisite (vs. requisite)
- Persona non grata
- Personal Branding for Writers—Stand Out from the Crowd
- Personal vs personable
- Personality vs personage vs persona
- Personification vs anthropomorphism
- Persons vs. People - Proper Usage & Examples
- Persuade vs dissuade
- Peruse
- Pervert vs subvert
- Pet vs. petted
- Petulant vs impetuous
- Pharaoh or Pharoah
- Phial vs. vial (vs. vile)
- Philly vs. Filly
- Phoning It In or Phone It In - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Phony vs. phoney
- Phosphate vs. Phosphorus vs. Phosphorous
- Photo Bomb or Photobomber - Usage, Meaning & Origin
- Photogenic vs photographic
- Phrasal adjectives
- Phrasal Verbs - List, Uses & Examples
- Phrasal Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Phrases
- Pi and Pie - Spelling, Difference & Meaning
- Pickup vs. Pick Up (vs. Pick-up)
- Pie hole
- Pie in the Sky - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Piebald, skewbald, pinto or paint
- Pièce de résistance
- Piece of Cake – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Piece vs. Peace - Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Piecemeal
- Pig in a Poke – Meaning and Origin
- Pigeon Hole - Origin & Meaning
- Piggy bank
- Piggyback
- Pincer vs. pincher
- Pipe Down – A Polite Request for Silence
- Pipe dream
- Piping Hot - Origin & Meaning
- Pipsqueak
- Pissant
- Pit stop
- Pitcher vs picture
- Pith vs pit
- Pithy
- Pixelated vs. pixilated
- Place card vs placard
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Plain vs. plane
- Plainclothes
- Plait vs. Plate
- Plan B - Idiom & Meaning
- Plaque vs plack
- Plateaus vs. plateaux
- Play By Ear - Meaning and Usage
- Play Fast and Loose – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Play for Keeps – Meaning and Origin
- Play one's cards right
- Play Second Fiddle – Playing A Less Important Role
- Playing With Fire – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Playwright vs. playwrite
- Pleaded or Pled - Definition & Examples
- Please vs. Pleas
- Plenitude vs. plentitude
- Plethora
- 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
- Plural of Platypus - Platypuses or Platypi?
- Plural Possessive Nouns - Rules and Examples
- Plurals of nouns ending in 'Y'
- Plutocrat vs autocrat
- Poetic justice
- Pogrom vs genocide
- Point in time
- Point of view, standpoint, viewpoint
- Point-blank
- Poker Face - Meaning and Definition
- Polemic vs Polemical - What's the Difference?
- Polish vs. Polish - Meaning & Difference
- Politics
- Polka dot
- Pollyanna
- Pomp and circumstance
- Pompom vs. pompon (vs. pom-pom etc.)
- Pony up
- Poo vs. pooh
- Poof, Pouf or Pouffe
- Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
- Pop culture
- Pop one's clogs
- Poppycock
- Populace vs. populous
- Porch vs. Veranda vs. Verandah - Difference & Definition
- Pore over vs. pour over
- Pore, pour or poor
- Portend vs. portent
- Poseur vs poser
- Possessive Adjectives - Definition, Examples
- Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns
- Possessive Pronouns - List, Examples
- Possessive Pronouns Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Possibility vs probability
- Poster child
- Postpositive adjectives
- Potentiality
- Practicable vs. practical
- Practice What You Preach - Origin & Meaning
- Practise or Practice - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Prank call or crank call
- Preaching to the Choir – Meaning and Origin
- 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
- Prepositions of Place Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Prepositions of Time - Usage, Examples
- Present company excepted vs present company accepted
- Present Continuous Tense - Uses & Examples
- Present Perfect Continuous Tense - Uses, Examples
- Present Perfect Tense - Uses, Examples
- Present Perfect vs Past Simple Tense Worksheets & Explanation
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Present Simple and Future Simple Exercises (+ Printable PDF)
- Present Simple vs. Present Continuous Tense
- Present vs present
- Preserve vs persevere
- Presume vs. Assume - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Presumptive vs. presumptuous
- Pretentious vs portentous
- Preternatural vs supernatural
- Preventative vs. preventive
- Previous vs. prior
- Pride comes before a fall and pride goeth before a fall
- Prima Donna - Definition & Meaning
- Primal scream
- Prime the Pump – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Primrose Path—A Metaphor for Easy But Risky Choices
- Principal vs. Principle - Definition & Difference
- Printable Simple Past Tense Worksheets for Grade 3
- Prioritize vs prioritise
- Prise or Prize or Pries – What's the Difference?
- 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
- Program vs. Programme - Difference, Meaning & Examples
- Project vs project
- Promulgate vs propagate
- Pronoun Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Proof is in the pudding
- Proofread Anywhere Review - Is it Worth It?
- Proofreader Cover Letter Examples and Tips
- Proofreading and Editing Examples
- Proofreading Certification - How To Get Certified
- Proofreading Checklist - 12 Essential Things To Look For
- Proofreading Errors—Catching Pitfalls Before Publication
- Proofreading Errors—From Typos to Tangles
- Proofreading Rates - Per Word and Hourly With Charts
- Proofreading vs. Revising - What is the Difference?
- Prophecy vs. prophesy
- Proportional vs. proportionate
- Props
- Protagonist vs. Antagonist - Definitions and Examples
- Protégé
- Proved vs. proven
- Providence vs province
- Province vs provenance
- Proximal vs proximate
- Pseudo
- Psych vs. psyche
- Pull one's weight
- Pull the Plug – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Pull the rug out from under
- Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes – A Simple Phrase Or A Way To Fool Someone?
- Pull Up Stakes or Up Sticks - Origin & Meaning
- Pulling Out All the Stops – Meaning and Origin
- Pulling Teeth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Pullout, pull-out, pull out
- Puppy love or poppy love
- Pure as the Driven Snow – Origin and Meaning
- Purposely vs. purposefully
- Push My Buttons—Invoking Strong Emotional Reactions
- Push the Envelope—A Simple Phrase for Going Beyond
- Pushing Up Daisies - Meaning & Origin
- Pussy vs pussy
- Put a flea in someone's ear vs put a bug in someone's ear
- Put on heirs or airs
- Put on Hold – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Put On Ice – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Put one's cards on the table and lay one's cards on the table
- Put One’s Finger on Something—An Idiom of Precise Understanding
- Put though the wringer vs put through the ringer
- Put Two and Two Together – Drawing an Obvious Conclusion
- Put Up or Shut Up – Meaning and Origin
- Put up with
- Put words in someone's mouth
- Putative vs punitive
- Putting the Cart Before the Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Putting vs putting
- Quaff vs coif
- Qualitative vs. qualitive
- Quantitative vs. quantitive
- Quantum
- Quash vs. squash
- Quasi
- Que Sera Sera – A Universal Expression of Fate
- Quelch vs. squelch
- Query vs inquiry
- Question Mark – Grammar and Punctuation Rules
- Question Mark After "I Was Wondering" - Guide & Examples
- Question Mark and Quotation Marks - Usage & Examples
- Questions in English Grammar - Structure & Examples
- Quillbot Review
- Quillbot vs Grammarly
- Quire vs. Choir - Meaning, Difference & Spelling
- Quiver vs quaver
- 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
- Rack vs. wrack
- Racket vs. racquet
- Radical vs. Radicle
- Rail vs. Rale
- Rain Check - Idiom, Slang & Meaning
- Rain vs. Rein vs. Reign - Difference in Definition & Spelling
- Raise Cain
- Raise One’s Hackles or Get One’s Hackles Up
- Raise the Bar – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Rake over the coals and haul over the coals
- Randomize vs randomise
- Rap on the Knuckles – Idiom, Meaning and Sentence Examples
- Rappel vs. repel
- Rapt vs. wrapt
- Raring to Go - Meaning and Origin
- Rat Race - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Rational or rationale
- Ravaging vs. ravishing
- Re-create vs. recreate
- Reactionary vs. reactive
- Read Between the Lines – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Read the Riot Act – Meaning and Origin
- 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
- Rebut vs refute
- Recant vs recount
- Receipt vs. Recipe - Difference in Meaning & Spelling
- Recent vs. resent
- Recognize vs recognise
- Record vs record
- Recuse vs excuse
- Red carpet
- Red Flag – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Red vs. Read - Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Red-Letter Day - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Redact vs retract
- Redneck vs. Hillbilly vs. Hick - What's the Difference?
- Redress vs readdress
- Reed vs read
- Reef vs wreath
- Referendum
- Reflexive Pronouns - Definition & Examples
- Refuse vs refuse
- Regard vs. regards
- Regift
- Regime vs. regimen
- Regimen vs regiment
- Regrettable vs. regretful
- Reinvent the Wheel - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Relative Clauses - Definition, Examples
- Relative Clauses Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Relative Pronouns - Usage & Examples
- Relevancy vs. Relevance - Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Reluctant vs reticent
- Remunerate vs. renumerate
- Renascence and renaissance
- Rend or rent
- Renege vs rescind
- Repair vs reparation
- Repel vs. repulse
- Repertoire or repertory
- Repetition vs repetitiveness
- Repetitive vs redundant
- Reported Speech - Rules, Examples
- Reported Speech Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Reporting Verbs - Usage, List of Examples
- Reporting Verbs Exercises (with Printable PDF)
- Represent vs represent
- Repudiate and refudiate
- Repudiate vs refute
- 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
- Retrograde vs anterograde or antegrade
- Retrospect vs introspect
- Reverent vs reverend
- Reverso Grammar Review
- Revising vs. Editing - What's the Difference?
- Rhyme or reason
- Ridded
- Riding Coattails—Success by Association
- Riding Shotgun — Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Rife vs. ripe
- Riff vs. rift
- Riffle vs rifle
- Riffraff
- Riffraff vs riprap
- Right as Rain - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Right Off the Bat – Meaning and Origin
- Right-of-way
- Right-side up
- Rime vs. Rhyme – What's the Difference?
- Ring a Bell- Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Rise Like a Phoenix From the Ashes
- Risky vs risqué
- Robbing Peter to Pay Paul – Meaning and Origin
- Rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock'n'roll, etc.
- Rock the Boat – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Role vs. Roll - Difference & Meaning
- Roll Up Your Sleeves - Meaning, Uses, Examples & Origin
- Rollout vs. roll out
- Rollover vs. roll over
- Roofs vs. rooves
- Roommate, room mate or room-mate
- Root vs. route vs. rout
- Rose Colored Glasses – An Idiom Of Optimism Or Ignorance
- Rot vs. Wrought
- Rouge vs. Rogue – What's the Difference?
- 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
- Rubenesque
- Rude vs. Rued
- Ruff vs. Rough - Spelling, Usage & Meaning
- Ruffle someone's feathers
- Rule of thumb
- Rumour or Rumor - Difference & Meaning
- Run It Up the Flagpole — Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Run Out the Clock - Origin & Meaning
- Run rings around someone and run circles around someone
- Run the Gauntlet – A Risky Situation or Corporal Punishment?
- Run-on sentences
- Runaway vs. run away
- Rung vs. Wrung
- Rye vs wry
- Sac vs. Sack
- Sachet vs. Sashay
- Sacrilege, sacrilegious
- Sadist vs. Masochist vs. Sadomasochism - Difference & Definition
- Said
- Said the Actress to the Bishop - Meaning & Origin
- Sail vs. Sale - Homophones, Difference & Meaning
- Salacious
- Salt of the Earth – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- 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
- Sang vs sung
- Sangfroid - Meaning & Examples
- Sanguine vs exsanguinate
- Sanitise vs. Sanitize
- Sank vs. sunk
- Sans - Usage, Meaning & Definition
- Sartorial vs satirical
- Satire vs satyr
- Satisficing vs satisfying
- Savanna vs. savannah
- Save For A Rainy Day – An Idiom For Financial Advice
- Save one's bacon
- Saved By the Bell – Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Saviour or Savior – Which One to Use?
- Savoir faire
- Sawing Logs – An Innocent Phrase for Snoring
- Say one's peace vs piece
- Say When – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Scam or sham
- Scapegoat or Escape Goat - Origin & Meaning
- Scared vs scarred
- Scarfs vs. scarves
- Scatological
- Sceptic vs. skeptic
- Schadenfreude - Usage & Meaning in English
- Schema or schematic
- Schmuck versus putz
- Scissors
- Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel—How to Express Poor Quality
- Scrapped vs scraped
- Scratch the surface
- Scribens Review
- Scrimp vs skimp
- Scrip vs script
- Scrumdiddlyumptious
- Scrummy
- Sculpture vs sculptor
- Sea Change – A Slight Alteration or a Complete Transformation
- Sear vs. seer vs. sere
- Seas, sees or seize
- Seasonable vs seasonal
- Secede vs. succeed
- Second Conditional - Examples
- Second Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Second string
- Second that emotion or notion or motion
- Second-Guess - Usage & Meaning
- Secret Santa
- Secret vs. secretive
- Sediment vs sentiment
- Sedimentary vs sedentary
- See a Man About a Horse—A Classic Excuse
- See Eye to Eye - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
- See vs. Sea - Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Seen Better Days – Meaning & Origin
- Seen vs. Scene - Homophones & Meaning
- Seldomly - Meaning & Definition
- Self vs self
- Semi-, hemi-, and demi-
- Semicolon vs. Period - Which One To Use?
- Sense vs. Since vs. Cense – What's the Difference?
- Senses vs census
- Sentence Structure Types and Examples
- Sentience vs sapience
- Separate vs separate
- Separate vs. Seperate - What's the Difference?
- Sepulcher, crypt, catacomb or mausoleum
- Sequins vs sequence
- Series
- Set in Stone, Carved in Stone or Written in Stone
- Set Up vs. Setup vs. Set-up
- Sever vs severe
- Sew vs. Sow - What's the difference?
- Sewer vs sewer
- Shake a Leg - Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Shake one's head vs nod one's head
- Shake vs. Sheikh
- Shall vs. will
- Shame vs ashamed
- Shape up or ship out
- Sharable vs. shareable
- Shard or sherd
- Share and share alike vs per stirpes
- Sharp as a Tack—An Idiom for Being Mentally Alert
- Shat vs. shitted
- Shaved vs. shaven
- Shed vs. shedded
- Sheik, Chic or Sheek - What's the Difference?
- Shelf vs. shelve
- Shenanigans
- Shined or Shone – Difference, Definition and Examples
- Ships passing in the night
- Shoe vs. Shoo
- Shoestring Budget - A Creative Expression for Limited Money
- Shoot the Breeze - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Shoot Yourself in the Foot—An Expression of Self-Destruction
- Shooting Fish in a Barrel – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Shop till you drop
- Shopping cart or buggy
- Short End of the Stick or Wrong End of the Stick
- Short Fuse – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Short Leash – Meaning and Origin
- Shot Across the Bow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Shotgun Wedding - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Should have, should've or should of
- Shoveled/shoveling vs. shovelled/shovelling
- Show one's true colors
- Shrinking Violet – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Shriveled/Shriveling vs. Shrivelled/Shrivelling
- Shtick
- Shuffle off This Mortal Coil—Exploring the Afterlife
- Shut or close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- Sic vs. sick
- Sight for Sore Eyes - Origin & Meaning
- Sight vs. site
- Sign Up vs. Signup
- Significant Other - Meaning & Origin
- Silicon vs. silicone
- Silver-tongued
- 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 – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other – Breaking Down Similarity
- Six ways from Sunday
- Skating on thin ice and on thin ice
- Skeleton in the closet and skeleton in the cupboard
- Skilful vs. skillful
- Slash (Virgule) Punctuation Rules With Examples
- Slave driver
- Slay vs. Sleigh
- Slayed or slew
- Sled, sledge, sleigh and toboggan
- Sleep like a top
- Sleep with the Fishes—A Helpful Idiom or a Trouble Spot
- Slough vs slough
- Slough vs. Slew
- Slow and steady wins the race
- Small Potatoes – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Smart alec and smart aleck
- Smartphone vs smart phone
- Smarty-pants and smarty-boots
- Smelled vs. Smelt - Difference & Meaning
- Smite, smote, smitten
- Smoke and Mirrors – Meaning and Origin
- Smokey vs. smoky
- Smooth vs. Smoothe vs. Smoothen
- Snake in the Grass - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sneaked vs. snuck
- So to speak
- Social Media for Freelance Writers—Likes, Branding, Engagement
- Social vs sociable
- Solder vs soldier
- Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, & Sailors - What's the Difference?
- Soliloquy vs monologue
- 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
- Something has legs
- Something, Anything, Nothing & Everything
- Sooner rather than later
- Sort Of - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- SOS and Mayday
- Sot vs. Sought
- Sound like a broken record
- Sounding Board – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Sour Grapes - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sow vs sow
- Spaces between sentences
- Spake
- Spanish fly
- Spartan
- Spat or spitted
- Spatter vs. splatter
- Speak now or forever hold your peace
- Speak of the Devil—From Phrase to Folklore
- Speak to
- Speak truth to power
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Speaks volumes
- Spearhead - Usage & Definition
- Speciality vs. specialty
- Species
- Specious vs spurious
- Speck vs. Spec
- Specter vs. spectre
- Spectra vs. spectrums
- Sped vs. speeded
- 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
- Spill the beans
- Spilled vs. spilt
- Spin a Yarn - Origin & Meaning
- Spit and Image, Spitting Image, or Splitting Image
- Spitballing – Meaning and Origin
- Spitz vs. Spits
- Split Infinitive – Usage, Rules and Examples
- Spoiled vs. spoilt
- Spoof
- Spoonerism vs malapropism
- Spreaded
- Spruce Up – Origin and Meaning
- Spur of the Moment – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Spur vs. spurn
- Stabbed in the Back – Uncovering Betrayal
- Stadia vs. stadiums
- Staid vs stayed
- Stained glass
- Stalking Horse – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Stanch vs. staunch
- Stand alone vs standalone
- Stand one's ground and hold one's ground
- Stand the test of time
- Standby vs. stand by
- Start from scratch
- Stat vs now
- State of the art
- Stationary vs. stationery
- Stative Verbs - Uses, Examples
- Stative Verbs Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Status quo
- Statute of limitations
- Stay on top of
- Staycation - Meaning & Etymology
- Steal vs steel
- Stem-winder or stemwinder
- Step into the breach
- Step up to the Plate – Assuming the Challenge
- Stick a fork in it
- Stick one's neck out
- Stick out like a sore thumb
- Stick to, stick by, or stick with
- Stick-in-the-Mud - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sticks and stones
- Sticktoitiveness
- Stiff Upper Lip – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Stigma, stigmas or stigmata
- Still Waters Run Deep – Origin and Meaning
- Stint or Stent - Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Stir the Pot or Stirring the Pot – Meaning and Origin
- Stir up a hornets' nest and stir up a hornet's nest
- Stir-Crazy – Origin, Usage and Meaning
- Stock vs stalk
- Stocking stuffer and stocking filler
- Stolen vs. Stollen
- Stomping ground and stamping ground
- Stonewall - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Stop and Smell the Roses — Meaning, Uses, Examples and Origin
- Storey vs. Story – What's the Difference?
- Storm in a Teacup – Excessive Enthusiasm or Unnecessary Fuss?
- Storytelling Development—Mastering Narrative Nuances
- Straight A's – Scoring the Highest Grades
- Straight and Narrow – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Straight from the horse's mouth
- Straight Shooter – An Idiom For Being Straightforward
- Stratagem vs. strategy
- Strike While the Iron Is Hot – Meaning and Origin
- 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 and Examples
- Subject and Object Questions Exercises (with 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
- Substantial vs. substantive
- Substantive (Structural) Editing—Enhancing Clarity and Flow
- Subtle vs. subtil
- Suede vs. Swayed
- Suffice to Say or Suffice It to Say - Meaning & Examples
- Sugar Daddy – A Symbol of Wealth or an Expression of Companionship
- Sui generis
- Suit vs suite
- Suite vs. Sweet
- Sulfur vs. sulphur
- 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
- Supersede or supercede
- Suppose To or Supposed To – Usage and Examples
- Surely vs surly
- Surveil
- Suspect vs suspect
- Suspect, person of interest or perpetrator
- Svengali
- Swanning around and swanning about
- Swatch vs swath
- Swath vs. swathe
- Sweat vs. sweated
- Sweet Tooth - Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Sweeten the pot
- Swing for the Fences—Idiomatic Power Play
- Sword of Damocles
- Sycophant
- Symbol vs. Cymbal – Meaning, Homophones and Spelling
- Synchronise or synchronize
- Systematic vs systematical
- Systematic vs. systemic
- T-shirt, t-shirt, tee-shirt, tee shirt
- Tack vs. tact
- Tad bit vs tidbit
- Tag Questions - Uses, Examples
- Tag Questions Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Tail Wagging the Dog – Idiom, Meaning and Examples
- Take a Bath – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Take a Gander - Meaning & Examples
- Take a Hike – Meaning and Origin
- Take a knee
- Take a powder
- Take a Shot—Encouraging Bold Moves
- Take a toll and take its toll
- Take for granted or take for granite
- Take It With A Grain (Pinch) Of Salt – Behind The Skepticism
- Take No Prisoners - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Take over vs. takeover
- Take someone for a ride
- Take That to the Bank—A Guide to Teaching Reliable Statements
- Take the bull by the horns and grab the bull by the horns
- Take the cake
- Take the High Road - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Take the reins
- Take to the cleaners
- Takeaway and takeout
- Taken Back or Taken Aback - Which One to Use?
- Talk a blue streak and curse a blue streak
- Talk Is Cheap – Know The Difference Between Words and Action
- 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
- Taro vs tarot
- Tartar or tartare
- Tattletale vs telltale
- Tea vs tee
- Teacher's Pet—From Classroom to Culture
- Tear vs tier
- Tear vs. Tare
- Tear vs. Tear - Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Technical Writing—Beyond Instructions
- Telegram vs. telegraph
- Tell It to the Marines – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Temblor, tremblor or trembler
- Tempus Fugit - Origin & Meaning in English
- Tenant vs. tenet
- Tenure vs tenor
- Terminal Punctuation - How to End a Sentence
- Terrific vs terrifying
- Test Your Punctuation Skills (Quizzes With Answers)
- Testament vs. testimony
- Testing the Waters - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Tete-a-tete
- Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day
- That or Who – When and How to Use Correctly?
- That vs. which
- That which
- That's All She Wrote – An Unexpected End Or Finality
- The $64,000 question
- The Ampersand (&) - How and When to Use It
- The Ball Is in Your Court—A Phrase of Responsibility or Challenge
- The Best Free Freelance Writer Invoice Templates—Getting Paid on Time
- The Best of Both Worlds - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- The big picture
- The birds and the bees
- 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 Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs — Meaning & Origin
- The Grammarist Insider Daily
- The Hill You Want to Die On – Meaning and Origin
- The Impact of Advanced Education on English Grammar Teaching Techniques
- The Importance of Punctuation
- The Interrobang Punctuation Mark(‽) - How to Use it Properly
- The Jig Is Up – A Surprising Insight into English Deceptions
- The Late - Usage, Meaning & Examples
- The lesser of two evils
- The Meaning of Step on Toes and How to Offend Someone
- The nature of the beast
- The penny dropped
- The pick of the litter
- The Pilcrow or Paragraph Symbol ¶ (Keyboard Shortcuts)
- The Pipe Symbol (|): A Comprehensive Guide
- The quick and the dead
- The Road Less Traveled – Daring to be Different
- The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions - Origin & Meaning
- The Role of Research in Academic Essay Writing
- The Straw Man Fallacy: Meaning and Examples
- The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back – Series Of Unpleasant Events
- The Third Degree – Meaning, Idiom & Origin
- The Ultimate Guide to Showcasing Freelance Work on Your Resume
- The whole megillah
- The World Is Your Oyster—Exploring Unlimited Possibilities
- The worm has turned
- 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
- 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 – Usage and Examples in a Sentence
- Therefore vs therefor
- Thesauri or thesaurusus
- Think on one's feet
- Third Conditional - Uses, Examples
- Third Conditional Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Third Time's the Charm—The Power of Persistence
- Third Wheel and Fifth Wheel – Meaning & Origin
- This Ain't My First Rodeo – From Novice To Veteran
- This, That, These, and Those Exercises (With Printable PDF)
- Thorn in the Flesh—More Than a Painful Idiom
- Thoroughbred vs purebred
- Three Sheets to the Wind – Navigating the 'Drunk' Language
- Three-Ring Circus - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Threshold or threshhold
- Throne vs thrown
- Through vs. Threw - Which One to Use and When
- Through vs. Thru - Difference, Usage & Examples
- Throw good money after bad
- Throw My Hat in the Ring - Meaning and Origin
- Throw or toss someone a bone
- Throwing In The Towel – The Symbol of Surrender
- 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
- Tide Someone Over vs. Tied Someone Over - Origin & Definition
- Tie the Knot or Tying the Knot - Meaning & Origin
- Tiger by the Tail – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Tilde Symbol (~) Definition, Usage, and Examples
- Till the Cows Come Home – From Now to Infinity
- Tilting at windmills
- Time heals all wounds
- Time waits for no man
- Timeout vs. time out
- Tinder vs tender
- Tinker's damn and tinker's dam
- Tinseltown
- Tips for Editing Your Research Paper (Checklist Included)
- Tire vs. tyre
- Tit for Tat - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Title Capitalization Rules - Ultimate Guide
- Titles of Works - Punctuation Guide
- Titter vs titer
- To a T
- To boot
- To Cool One's Heels - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- To err is human; to forgive, divine
- To Fan the Flames – Idiom, Meaning & Sentence Examples
- To Feather One's Nest – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- To Get Wind of — Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- To Harp On – The Persistence of Complaint
- To hear crickets
- To say the least and to say the least of it
- To the hilt
- To the victor belong the spoils
- To vs. Too - The Difference With Examples
- To wit
- Toe the line
- Toe vs. Tow
- Toffee-Nosed - Origin & Meaning
- Toile vs tulle
- Tole vs. Toll
- Tolerance vs. toleration
- Tomayto, tomahto and potayto, potahto
- Ton vs. Tonne - What's the Difference?
- Tongue-in-Cheek – Meaning, Origin and Examples
- Too big for one's britches or breeches and too big for one's boots
- Too Many Irons in the Fire – Beyond Multitasking
- Too much of a good thing
- Tool vs tulle
- Toot Sweet – Meaning and Origin
- Toot Your Own Horn or Blow Your Own Horn — Meaning and Examples
- Tooth and Nails – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Top 10 Benefits of Using AI for Enhanced Writing and Communication
- Top 5 AI-Powered Resume Builder Tools for Freelancers
- Top 9 Worst Writing Tips Ever: A Humorous Breakdown
- Top AI Proofreading Tools—Revolutionize Effortless Solutions
- Top banana and second banana
- Top dog
- Top Freelance Writing Tools—Essentials to Boost Your Craft
- Top Proofreading Apps Reviewed—A Wordsmith's Toolkit
- Totaled/totaling vs. totalled/totalling
- Touch and go
- Touch base
- Touche or touché
- Tough row to hoe
- Tour de force
- Toward vs. Towards - What's the Difference?
- Toweled or towelled
- Towhead
- Track and field and athletics
- Tract vs. Track - Difference in Meaning & Usage
- Tragedy vs travesty
- Trainer or trainor
- Transport vs. transportation
- Trap vs entrap
- Travel, Traveled & Travelling - What's the Difference?
- Trawl vs. troll
- Treasurys
- Treatise vs treaties
- Treble vs. triple
- Triage
- Trial By Fire—Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Trick or treat vs trick-or-treat
- Tried and True – Meaning and Origin
- Trip the Light Fantastic—From Dance Floor to Language
- Troglodyte
- Troop vs. troupe
- Trouper vs. Trooper - Meaning, Difference & Examples
- Trump card
- Trussed vs. Trust
- Tsk Tsk or Tisk Tisk - Meaning & Examples
- Tumor vs. tumour
- Tunneled, Tunneling vs. Tunnelled, Tunnelling - What's the Difference?
- Turbid, turgid, torpid
- Turn Over a New Leaf - Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Turn over vs turnover
- Turn the Other Cheek – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Turnabout is fair play
- Turnkey vs turn key
- Tutor vs. Tudor
- Tween
- Twiddle one's thumbs
- Two can play at that game
- Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail – Origin and Meaning
- Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right - Proverb, Meaning & Examples
- Two's company, three's a crowd
- Types of Editors and Editing—From Copy to Content
- Types of Sentences With Examples - Declarative, Imperative, Exclamatory, and Interrogative
- Uber
- Ubiquitous
- Udder vs. utter
- Ulterior motive
- Unawares
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncountable Nouns - List, Definition & Examples
- Under false pretenses and under false pretences
- Under My Skin – Meaning & Origin
- Under one's belt
- Under one's nose
- Under the table
- Under the Weather – Idiom, Meaning and Origin
- Under Wraps Meaning – When and How To Convey Secrets
- Underlie or underline
- Understanding "Lay of the Land" – Your Ultimate Guide
- Underwater vs. Under Water
- Underway vs. under way
- Undoubtably vs. undoubtedly
- Unfamous or infamous
- Unionized vs unionized
- Unique
- United States (plural or singular?)
- Unkempt, unkept
- Unputdownable
- Unsung hero
- Until one is blue in the face
- Until the last dog is hung
- Unwitting vs unwilling
- Up and at ‘em vs up and Adam or atom
- Up the creek and up a creek
- Up to date
- Up to Scratch – Idiom, Origin and Meaning
- Up to snuff
- Up to Speed – Meaning and Origin
- Upfront or Up Front – What's the Difference?
- Upmost vs. utmost
- Upper crust
- Upper Hand (or Have the Upper Hand) - Meaning & Origin
- Upset the applecart
- Urban vs urbane
- Urban, suburban and rural
- Use vs. Utilize – What's the Difference?
- Used To or Use To? - Meaning and Examples
- Using Apostrophes To Show Possession and Ownership
- Using Commas With Introductory Phrases
- Using the Idiom Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish Correctly
- Usually always
- Vacuous vs. vapid
- Vagabond and vagrant
- Vale, vail, or veil
- Valedictorian and salutatorian
- Valentine's Day
- Variance vs variants
- Varied vs various
- Variety Is the Spice of Life—Going Beyond Monotony
- Vary vs. Very – Homophones, Usage and Difference
- Vaudeville
- Vent one's spleen
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