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Contextual Spelling - Common Errors

In English, as in several other languages, there are words that sound the same but mean different things. These similar-sounding but different-meaning words are homonyms. The word “homonym” comes from the Greek for “same name”. Some homonyms are especially confusing and hard to tell apart - in other words, which spelling corresponds with which meaning.


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Common Errors in English – Missing Prepositions

Prepositions are the most frequently occurring type of word in the English language. So, they are a pretty important word group to understand! According to The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. rev. (University of Chicago Press, 2003), a preposition is “a word or phrase that links an object (a noun or noun equivalent) to another word in the sentence to show the relationship between them.”


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