Stop Doing This Common Silly Mistakes.

Want To Be A Professional Writer? Stop Making These Common 12 Grammar Mistakes !!!

1. Who, Whom, Whose, Who’s

While these can get tricky while writing, we can easily break them down.

Who : Is a pronoun used to identify a living person (or animal)

Whom : A descriptor for someone who is receiving something.

Whose : Assigns ownership to something.

Who’s : A contraction for “who is.”

2. ‘To’ or ‘Too’

To is the most common usage. It is generally used in front of a VERB or a NOUN and means a direction, recipient, or action such as to go to something When...

Eg : Too stays for “also” as in : “Let me go too!”

Don’t want to mix these two up, particularly in your professional writing. It is a fairly obvious difference, and using one of these common grammar mistakes just down your impressions that you have lapses in your education or you lack attention to detail.

3. Farther vs. Further

It is common to use these interchangeably, however, it is not a very noticeable mistake.

“Farther,” is used to describe a physical distance, whereas, “further,” is not and used as a more figurative term.

4. Among or Between

You use between when you are talking about two or more things that can be clearly separated.

Eg : I hate to choose between carrots and broccoli.

Eg : You use among when the items are in a group.

Eg : She is among the brightest in her class.

5. e.g. vs i.e.

People often get these abbreviations mixed up or don’t really know what they mean in the first place. “e.g.” refers to giving an example whereas “i.e.” refers to “in other words.”

e.g. School has been postponed indefinitely,

i.e. you don’t have to go to school.

6. ‘Affect’ or ‘Effect’

I know they sound's like same, but both words are very different. The difference here is not so obvious as in 1st, and confuses so many people that writers have taken to using the word “impact” as a replacement – just to avoid this all silly mistakes. But let’s see I always with you ! I help you understand one of these common grammar mistakes.

Affect is a VERB. This is the big distinction ! It is used to show action.

They didn’t know how the snowfall would Affect the crops.

Eg : Effect is a noun. It is used as a subject/object.

Eg : The Effect of the snowfall was yet to be seen.

7. ‘Who’ or ‘Whom’

This one is a little hard because it involves knowing if you need a subjective pronoun or an objective pronoun. SUBJECTIVE PRONOUNCE are the subject of a sentence, while OBJECTIVE PRONOUNS are direct objects and objects of the preposition.

WHO is the subjective case.

Eg : Who decided to come to the show?

WHOM is used in the objective case.

Eg : The reality show was attended by whom?

8. Possessive Apostrophe

If a noun is possessive, you will need to add an Apostrophe to show that it’s possessive. However, there are rules regarding where to put that carking apostrophe.

If the noun is singular and does not end in the letter “s,” add an apostrophe and then the letter “s.”

Eg : The horse’s tell was long.

If the noun is plural OR ends in an “s,” put the apostrophe after the letter “s” and don’t add another “s.”

The girls’ photo was flying high that day.

The car’ driver was asleep at the wheel.

9. ‘Then’ or ‘Than’

“Then shows an action that has a place in time.”

Eg : Rose arrived at the move, then he got maggie.

“Than is used to show a comparison.”

Eg : Rose decided he would rather go to the coaching than the movie.

10. Ensure or Insure or Assure

• Ensure means to make something certain.

• Insure means to provide insurance for.

• Assure means to promise something in confidence.

Eg : Let me assure you that I will ensure the real estate agent has this house insured.

11. Peak or Peek or Pique

Peak is the top of something that comes to a point.

Eg : Arunima sinha climbed to the mountain’s peak.

Peek is to look.

Eg : We took a peek in that direction.

Pique is to stimulate interest or curiosity.

Eg : The movie served to pique our interest.