Confusing words.

*Confusing Words*

*a/an/and -*

🍃A is used before a word beginning with a consonant or consonant sound.

👉🏻I would love a new car.

🍃An is used before a word beginning with a vowel or vowel sound.

👉🏻I took an apple for a snack.

🍃And joins words or clauses.

👉🏻I love apples and bananas.

*accept/except -*

🍃Accept means to receive.

👉🏻I accept your gift.

🍃Except means to exclude.

👉🏻I'll give you all my baseball cards except for the Micky Mantle.

 *addition/edition -*

🍃An addition is something that is added.

👉🏻We built an addition onto the house.

🍃An edition is one in a series of printed material.

👉🏻Did you see the latest edition of the paper?

*advice/advise -*

🍃Advice is an opinion offered as a guide.

👉🏻My advice is to study before tests.

🍃Advise is the action of offering an opinion as a guide.

👉🏻I advise you to study before tests.


*affect/effect -*

🍃Affect means to influence something.

👉🏻He affects me strangely whenever he winks at me.

🍃Effect means a result or to cause something to happen.

👉🏻Your wink has the strangest effect on me.


*allowed/aloud -*

🍃Allowed means permitted to happen.

👉🏻The child is allowed to stay up late on weekends.

🍃Aloud means out loud.

👉🏻Read your papers aloud to hear your mistakes.


*all ready/already -*

🍃All ready means everyone is ready.

👉🏻We're all ready for summer vacation.

🍃Already means before.

👉🏻David had already complete that class.


*are/our -*

🍃Are is a verb, the plural of is.

👉🏻We are going to the store.

🍃Our is a possessive pronoun, meaning belongs to us.