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homonym - one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning (as the noun quail and the verb quail). homophone - one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (as the words to, too, and two) This information came from...

Hi, "ABC is committed to promoting and impementing saftey in the coompany." Is above sentance is correct grammatically or not. If not, why and what is the correct one? It's OK. I have doubt on the use of verb+ing followed by "to". You don't have verb + 'ing' + 'to' in this sentence. In any...

Well, I do appreciate the spirited discussion. Thank you all! I can also appreciate your thoughts on the use of proper grammar. Unfortunately, as court reporters we are required to write exactly what we hear, hence the name Jackiewritesverbatim. The term "writes" refers to what I do on the...

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read, "He did survived" and "Did he survived?" I've never in my life heard or read that 'did' can be followed a verb in the past tense. Incho proves his point by making use of the google website, but can we trust the website to give us the correct information?...

Nowadays, technology plays an important role to the consumer. Products should be modern and convenient for consumers/the consumer because the consumer pays more attention to the most convenient products.On the contrary, production of modern products neglects the aeffects to/it has on the...

J Lewis wrote:If you know Latin or Italian they will give you some guide, but this is not perfect, because in French I believe a lot of such words use the "a", not the "e", and this often determines the English. So persistenza (Italian) gives us persistence in English, but resistenza gives us...

Ever since its birth, this dog has been with Larry. Now, the dog was malodorous, old, crippled and blind, but Larry was always with it. (The adj. stinky is too colloquial to be employed in written English.) Larry's roommate, John, wanted to get rid of the dog because he was bothered by the...

Thanks, Magda, you've done a job that I should have done.Yoong Liat, I hope you're satisfied now. On the question of spelling 40 as fourty, this is an improbable analogy as we are talking about a word used regularly. I can't remember ever myself using a sentence containing "the police is",...

"Game Over! Press start to continue." This is a common video game phrase that appears when you fail to achieve your goal. You have two choices. The first choice is to press the start button and try again. The second choice is to give up and walk away. My life was like this message during my 6th...

You can only have one s-marker in a verb phrase. have - no s-marker. has - has the s-marker. do - no s-marker. does - has the s-marker. (Note the spelling.) So once you start your question with does, you already have the s-marker, and the word has cannot be used because it,...