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More Easily Confused Words LESSON SUMMARY Some of the most commonly used words in the English language are easily confused with other equally common words. To avoid confusing readers, you need to know which ones are which.
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his lesson covers more of the most commonly confused word pairs, those you are likely to use in your writing. If you learn to distinguish these words, you can avoid errors. The words are divided into three separate sections with practice exercises at the end of each section. The words in italics following some of the entries are synonyms, words that can be substituted in a sentence for the easily confused words.
Small but Tricky
By/Buy â– â–
By is a preposition used to introduce a phrase (by the book, by the time, by the way) Buy as a verb means purchase. As a noun, it means bargain, deal. Examples: We stopped by (preposition) the store to buy (purchase) some groceries. That car was a great buy (deal).
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