Showing posts with label Confusing Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confusing Words. Show all posts

Provoke, Invoke, Evoke, and Revoke

Provoke, Invoke, Evoke, and  Revoke 

Provoke = استفزاز، أثارغضب شخص ما 

Invoke = ناشد، توسل 

Evoke =استدعاء، تذكر 

Revoke = حذف، إالغاء

Who’s and Whose

Whose is the possessive form of the pronoun who, while who’s is a contraction of the words who is or who has.

Example sentences using who’s 
My uncle is someone who’s living in Egypt. 
Ahmed told me who’s coming to the party.

Example sentences using whose 
Whose cat chewed up my homework? 
The ring came from a fire whose light was bright like a star.

Whoever vs. Whomever

 Whoever vs. Whomever


Don’t Say: Give the tickets to whomever can use them. 
Say Instead: Give the tickets to whoever can use them.

Here’s Why: You may have been tempted to say “whomever” here, because it may seem to be the object of “to.” But actually the object of “to” is the whole final clause “whoever can use them.” Within that clause, the pronoun is the subject of the verb “can,” so the subjective case is required, and that’s “whoever.” 

Grammatically, “whoever” and “whomever” work the same way that “who” and “whom” do. Wherever you would use “who,” you use “whoever,” and wherever you would use “whom,” you use “whomever.” “Whoever” can be used as the subject of a verb, for example:

Whoever took my belt had better give it back. 
Whoever said that was crazy.

Whomever” can put in an appearance as a verb’s object:

Please bring whomever you like to the picnic.

But these pronouns get tough when it’s hard to tell which part of the sentence determines which pronoun we should use. That’s what might happen in the first sample sentence, Give the tickets to whoever can use them. More correct examples of this tricky pattern are: 

It will be hard for whoever wins to run the state. (“Whoever” is the subject of “wins.”) 
We’ll have to get whomever we can to do the job. (“Whomever” is the subject of the infinitive “to do.”) 

Accept, Except

Accept, Except


Accept means to admit, receive, or agree.
I accept him to our organization with pleasure.
We accept your invitation to the ceremonies.
They accept the jury’s verdict with no problem.


Except as a preposition means other than.
The student’s grades are low in every subject except science.

A lot or Alot?

A lot or Alot?

Attain vs. Obtain

Attain vs. Obtain


Top 10 Misspelled Words

Top 10 Misspelled Words



 1-accomodate
Correct spelling: accommodate

 2-wich
Correct spelling: which

 3-recieve
Correct spelling: receive

 4-untill
Correct spelling: until

5-occured
Correct spelling: occurred

 6-seperate
Correct spelling: separate

7-goverment
Correct spelling: government

8-definately
Correct spelling: definitely

9-pharoah
Correct spelling: pharaoh

10-publically
Correct spelling: publicly


grateful, gratitude, gratuitous, and gratuity

grateful, gratitude, gratuitous, and gratuity 



Grateful = thankful

Gratitude = thankfulness

Gratuitous = free; unnecessary, uncalled for

Gratuity = tip given to a waiter, valet, etc. 

censor, sensor, censure, and censer

censor, sensor, censure, and censer



Fewer vs. Less


Fewer vs. Less



Lose vs. Loose


Lose vs. Loose


Two, Too, and To

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