Common Errors in Diction

  1. adverse/averse
  2. affect/effect
  3. all together/altogether; all ready/already; all right, but not alright
  4. any/any other
  5. appraise/apprise
  6. being that
  7. complementary/complimentary
  8. could of/should of/would of
  9. different than
  10. eminent/imminent
  11. farther/further
  12. former/first and latter/last
  13. hanged/hung
  14. imply/infer
  15. irregardless
  16. its/it's
  17. kind of a
  18. kind of/sort of
  19. lay/lie
  20. liable/likely
  21. number/amount
  22. one of/the only one of
  23. principal/principle
  24. the reason… is because
  25. their/there/they're
  26. very unique
  27. whoever/whomever
  28. your/you're
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