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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