USE THE RIGHT WORD!
What danger lurks in these word pairs?
who’s/whose . . . affect/effect . . . your/you’re
Or in these?
can/may … fewer/less … I/me … who/whom?
Both groups are hazardous because they cause WRONG WORD ERRORS. The first group are homonyms, words that sound the same or almost the same but have different spellings and meanings. (How confusing is that!)
The second group consists of words that are misused so often that they sound correct.
WRONG WORD ERRORS are hazardous to your wealth, your success, your reputation, your chances to advance, your confidence as a writer.
DON’T BE A VICTIM!
But what can you do? Your Spell-Check and Grammar-Check can’t help. They don’t make judgments about word meaning. It’s all up to you.
The good news is that help is here. It’s at your fingertips! Do you have a question about a confusing word pair? Just open USE THE RIGHT WORD. Tah-dah! The answer! It’s EASY! It’s FAST! It’s ACCURATE! It’s just what you’re looking for.
- Entry words are alphabetized and cross-referenced. PLUS, there’s an index.
- Each entry gives definitions, examples, and «More Examples,» in the form of celebrity quotes (everyone from Mae West to Albert Einstein),
USE THE RIGHT WORD
The Indispensable Writer’s Tool
Keep it on hand whenever you write.
You’ll wonder how you ever wrote without it!
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An Informative Book of English Usage Showing Where Mistakes May Happen
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Even when writers of beginning and intermediary levels know the right word, they can make mistakes with it. Although most of the information in this book is given piecemeal to students of English both in high school or in college, when I found this book, I thought the teachers should be using it as required reading because the writing is concise, not boring, and the information can be remembered very easily.
In the first two sections of Words Commonly Confused and Words Commonly Misused, the other three sections inform the reader on the simple usage of English, on what not to do, and tricky singular/plural forms, words easy to misspell.
In the Confused and Misused Words sections, first appropriate examples from quotes are given to be followed by dictionary meanings sometimes with their connotations, such as with statue and statute, “statute of limitations. A statute of limitations prescribes the time period in which legal action can take place.” Then a memory trick or two for remembering the information is there as well as a few quiz questions on the given words to be followed by their answers.
Although most English speakers may know these words, in newbie writers’ works, some of those are wrongly written or interpreted. It is not only the words that can be confused but also the other grammatical usages, such as contractions, most of which this book shows and informs clearly.
Then, at the end of the book, after instructing the reader on the plural forms of words derived from foreign languages, an addendum of several pages shows most of those words with their plurals, which I found to be very helpful. For example: “stoma-stomata or stomas”
I definitely recommend this book to writers and students of English, even if they feel confident in their writing prowess and they think they may know everything in the book. If for nothing, a re-review of what they know will secure that knowledge.
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This is an interesting word tool for writers. I thought for a moment, I don’t really need to read this book. But I am glad that I eventually did.
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This book is wonderful. I learned so much by reading and studying it. The author made it work for me.
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I like the format that gives quotes, definitions and menemonic devices to enable not just reference but learning.
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Use the rights words:
to cross; summer holidays; to travel; by plane; traffic lights; get; traffic; car; left; around; right; in advance; coast; to the left; to the right; wrong.
1. Where are you going to spend your … ? 2.1 don’t like to
g o …
I prefer … by train. 3. Let’s go boating along the …
4. It
is a very busy street, there is always a lot o f …
5. It is safe …
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Use the right word :
vitamins ; the food ; bread ; apple ; salad ; vegetables ; bar
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bacon and eggs (2) ; toast (2) ; breakfast (2) ; eat (2) ; meal ;
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