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• accept/except
• adverse/averse
• aesthetic
• affect/effect
• alter/altar
• anecdote/antidote
• antidote
• anyway/anyways
• Apostrophes in forming plurals
• aren’t I/am I not
• ask
• asterisk
• athlete
• awesome
• awhile/a while
• bad/badly
• bring/take
• cache
• chester drawers/chest of drawers
• Commas & semicolons with however (and other conjunctive adverbs)
• Commas in direct address
• complimentary/complementary
• continual(ly)/continuous(ly)
• could of/would of/should of
• couple/couple of
• dashes/hyphens
• Daylight Saving(s) Time
• different from/different than
• discreet/discrete
• drug/dragged
• emigrate
• escape
• February
• figuratively/literally
• forego/forgo
• forte
• further/farther
• good/well
• healthy/healthful
• height
• hopefully
• Hyphenating self in compound words
• immigrate/emigrate
• irregardless
• irregular verbs
• its/it’s
• jibe/jive
• lackadaisical
• less/fewer
• library
• lie/lay
• like/as though/as if
• literally/figuratively
• loose/lose
• mash/press or push
• momentarily
• moot
• myself (used instead of I)
• nauseous/nauseated
• nonplussed
• nuclear
• only: misplaced modifier
• our
• pamphlet
• peak/pique
• perspective/prospective
• podium/lectern
• posterity/prosperity
• precede/proceed
• preventive/preventative
• principal/principle
• proceed/precede
• pronunciation
• raise/rise
• real/really
• reign/rein
• stationary/stationery
• subject-verb agreement and subject modifiers
• than/then
• viral/virile
• wait on/wait for
• wary/weary
• who/that
• who/whom
• whose/who’s
• your/you’re