Today is a day for revisiting the madness of the English language. We have all had moments when our minds blank and we can’t figure out what word we should use. “Affect or effect?” We wonder to ourselves. “Affect is usually a verb, right?” Luckily the fine folks at GrammarCheck have a bright and bubbly infograph that helps writers make the proper word choices.
Back when I was grading students’ essays, this would have been a great resource to hand to them. I’m still half-tempted to send it around to people I know, but I’ll restrain myself.
Kristen Twardowski 
What a great graphic! Thanks for sharing.
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It is a helpful one! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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This is great! I’m sharing 😉
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I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Excellent post, can think of a few people that would benefit from seeing this (mostly my ex colleagues!)
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There are so many mistakes that are common for people to make!
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When I was younger I always used to get Principal and Principle confused. Learned my lesson one day when I told someone that our school didn’t have our Principle. 😂
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Ha! I’ve done things like that before. It always makes me learn my lesson.
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Reblogged this on When Angels Fly.
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Great blog! I wrote a similar one recently with common words that I have problems with, of course, you just added a few more. Thanks 🙂
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There are so many ways to get language wrong. It’s a miracle that we manage to communicate at all!
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I’m always battling with Grammarly over ‘alright’ and ‘all right’! It’s not consistent…and neither am I. 😀
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I hate it when rules aren’t actually rules! Probably because I’m not terrible consistent either.
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Oh yes… these confusions crop up constantly with new students. It really is a tricky language to master!
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I can’t imagine having to teach English as a second language, but people manage it. Somehow. Miraculously. Possibly by making a deal with a long forgotten spirit.
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Ha ha… the small god of learning language!
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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An area of weakness I have still not mastered. Thanks for the post. I need all the help I can find.
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I think we can all use a little help with things like this!
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Affect and effect alway get me!
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Me too. No matter how many times I check I always pause and think I am using the wrong word.
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Wow! There are a lot of words that are similar… Reasons why I detest the English language. I say we pick a different universal language, one that native speakers understand, perhaps? :p
And I am STILL working on appropriately using affect and effect. Most other words I’m pretty good at. Though, I do remember accidentally typing ‘shudder’ when I meant ‘shutter’ one time, but I think that’s just my Midwestern accent slipping into my writing. Hee hee! 😀
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Oh, I write “words that sound vaguely like the word I’m think of” all of the time. I think my brain and my fingers speak a slightly differently language. We need to get to work on that Common tongue!
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I hear that! *invents and makes millions* :p
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Whom baffles me. Even with the example given, I’m not sure how to use it.
Keep on living, keep on learning! 😊
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I have certain words like that where I have to think a little to hard every time I use them. Ah, well. Maybe someday I’ll be a grammar guru.
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Ha ha, same here.
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Ah I love this infographic! So helpful! Thanks for sharing 😀
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It really is a great one! There are so many common mistakes that people stumble into.
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Reblogged this on Ana's Lair and commented:
Sooo useful! Love this!
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O.u.t.s.t.a.n.d.i.n.g. 🙂
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Now I just have to make sure to remember the rules!
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Sigh. Don’t we all. 😉
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Hello there,
I have nominated you for the Blogger Recognition Award and would be proud if you accepted the Award. Check it out on my blog: https://aurorajalexander.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/the-blogger-recognition-award-for-writers-treasure-chest/
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Thanks, Aurora! I’m glad you thought of me.
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It was my pleasure, Kristen. 🙂
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Oh heeeeeeey
I just nominated you for Blogger Recognition Award! WOOOT!
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Thank, you! That was kind of you to think of me.
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Love this! Love info graphs and anchor charts 🙂
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They really are great tools! Plain text has its uses of course, but visualizations add another layer of meaning to it all.
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Thanks, Kristen, for this helpful information. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I’m glad! Some of these pairs can be so tricky.
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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I have a great little book I bought around 15 years ago called Editing Made Easy which is a quick reference guide for all those tricky words but also includes info about tautologies, cliches, using shorter words etc. I still refer to it in my day job & so do my younger colleagues.
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I hadn’t heard of that book before, but it looks really useful. And there is even a new-ish edition of it! Guess what is going in my next Amazon order.
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WOW, neat! i’m constantly coming up against youngsters who do not know how to spell and make these common errors (forget i’m typing all in lower case–something I do on purpose). Visiting my local library, was so thrilled I wrote a blog post about it, and set up a notification. the auto response noted my request had been recieved. it’s a library! I was so irritated, I fired back a note regarding i before e.
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Oh, no! It is always horrifying when errors like that appear. I’m sure the librarians were mortified, but at least they’ll be able to fix their auto response.
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I’m going to save this for sure!
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I’m glad it’s useful! English can be such a wonky language.
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Yes, I have someone I’m tutoring and this would be perfect
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Thanks for the helpful (and very thorough) post. Planning to share on my blog, ProofPerfectly.com.
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I’m glad you find it useful! The English language can be so tricky.
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