- aesthetic, pronounced “aestetic”
- affect/effect
- Apostrophes in forming plurals
- aren’t I/am I not
- ask, pronounced “ax” or “aks”
- asterisk, pronounced “asterick”
- athlete, pronounced “athelete”
- bring/take
- Commas in direct address
- Commas with conjunctive adverbs (however, furthermore, etc.)
- complimentary/complementary
- different from/different than
- drug/dragged
- escape, pronounced “exscape”
- February, pronounced “Febuary”
- forte, pronounced “FOR-tay”
- further/farther
- good/well
- healthy/healthful
- height, pronounced “heighth”
- hopefully
- Hyphenating self in compound words
- immigrate/emigrate
- irregardless
- irregular verbs
- lackadaisical, pronounced “laxadaisical”
- less/fewer
- library, pronounced “liberry”
- lie/lay
- like/as though/as if
- mash/press or push
- momentarily
- moot, pronounced “mute”
- nauseous/nauseated
- nuclear, pronounced “nucular”
- only: misplaced modifier
- our, pronounced “are” or like the letter “r”
- pamphlet, pronounced “pamplet”
- podium/lectern
- preventive/preventative
- real/really
- stationary/stationery
- wait on/wait for
- who/that
- who/whom