Commonly Confused Words: Like vs. Such As Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. The Boston Red Sox vs. The New York Yankees. Like vs. such as. Some battles are just legendary. Others are about grammar, so let’s make this syntax showdown quick and painless, OK? Like...
Commonly Confused Words: Passed vs. Past One of the best things about the English language is that some pairs of words sound identical, right? Wrong. From pray and prey to there, they’re, and their, these homophones, if you’re like me, probably make you a little...
Commonly Confused Words: Your vs. You’re There are countless reasons why it’s important to understand the nuances of your vs. you’re, but one of them stands above the rest. One of them is vital to political discourse and woven into the fabric of our...
Commonly Confused Words: Who vs. Whom As a child in middle school, I remember struggling when I wanted to understand how to correctly use who vs. whom. My heart was broken every time I got an essay back with a big red circle around whom. Still, I was determined to use...
Commonly Confused Words: Bad vs. Badly If I said that I feel badly, would you tell me to eat a cup of chicken noodle soup and rest, or would you wonder why my sense of touch is messed up? The bad vs. badly misunderstanding is persistent, so let’s make sense of these...
Commonly Confused Words: Empathy vs. Sympathy If you have ever had to try to explain the difference between two words that are very similar, I have empathy for you. That’s the situation that I find myself in at the moment trying to explain empathy vs. sympathy,...
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