Common Usage Problems

Common Usage Problems GRAPPLING WITH AN ALLIGATOR with ALLEN LOIBNER-WAITKUS featuring JENNIFER DEDMAN, special guest

• a, an

• as

• accept, except

• assure, ensure, insure

• affect, effect

• at

• aggravate

• awhile, a while

• all, all of

• beside, besides

• all ready, already

• better, had better

• all right

• between, among

• all together, altogether

• bust, busted

• a lot

• can, may

• amongst

• capital, capitol

• amount, number

• careen, career

• and etc.

• center around

• and/or

• cite, site

• anxious, eager

• compare to, compare with

• any more, anymore

• complement, compliment

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• continual, continuous

• hisself

• convince, persuade

• impact

• could care less

• imply, infer

• could of, should of, would of

• in, into

• disinterested, uninterested

• inside of, outside of, off of

• due to

• is when, is where

• especially, specially

• its, it’s

• everyday, every day

• later, latter

• everyone, every one

• lay. lie

• farther, further

• like, such as

• feel

• literally

• fewer, less

• loose, lose

• firstly

• may, might

• get, got

• maybe, may be

• good, well

• myself

• hanged, hung

• OK, O.K., okay

• he/she, his, her

• principal, principle

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• quote, quotation

• thru

• real, really

• till, until, ‘til

• respectfully, respectively

• toward, towards

• shall, will

• try and

• since

• unique

• so

• use, utilize

• sometime, some time, sometimes

• used to

• stationary, stationery

• wait for, wait on

• such

• who, which, that

• supposed to

• who, whom

• than, then

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