Commonly Confused Words: Jibe vs Jive When I watched “Grease” for the first time, I fell in love with the music and wanted to stand up and dance when “Born to Hand Jive” came on. That was my first experience with the word jive, and I had no...
Commonly Confused Words: Accept Vs Except The articles I’ve written so far about commonly confused words have been really easy, except this one. I guess I’ll just have to accept that I’m not the grammatical whiz I think I am despite my master’s...
Commonly Confused Words: Beside vs Besides Well, it happened again! The English language has thrown another curveball, and it comes in the guise of a simple letter “s” at the end of the word beside. Although beside vs besides are commonly confused with one another,...
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: Ascent Vs Assent Commonly Confused Words: Ascent Vs Assent If you have been regularly reading our blog posts about commonly confused words, you have probably made a sharp ascent into the higher echelons of skilled writers. However, there is...
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...
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