100 Words Expert Authors Should Know
How many of these words do you know? Can you use them in a sentence?
No There, There?
The English language has more than its share of homophones — words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings. It’s not a problem in oral language, but using the wrong word in written communication can be annoying, if not misleading. One set of homophones that is often misused is there, their, and they’re. Let’s review. they’re They’re is a contraction, the joining of two words into one. In this case: they and are. Instead of saying (or writing),”They are going to buy this house,” we combine two words into one and indicate the missing letters with an apostrophe. …