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Often Misused or Misspelled Words

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“Often Misused or Misspelled Words” by Joan Y. Edwards

It is frustrating to read an article and see words misused or misspelled. However, it does happen, even to the best of us. You find them when you are editing your work. Here are a couple of exercises and few links to help you discover a few words to look out for:
Here is a short paragraph with 10  misused and misspelled words. Can you find them?
Exercise 1 – Find the misused words and correct them.
  1. Betty ran down the street to the capital building.
  2. Ronald could go accept he didn’t have his running shoes on.
  3. Sarah emigrated into Italy.
  4. Finding the child alive was the climatic time of the movie.
  5. “Thank you for the complement, ” said Jeff.
Misused Words
  1. “10 Most Commonly Misused Words” https://www.mic.com/articles/31309/10-most-commonly-misused-words
  2. HitBullseye.com. “List of Confusing Words” https://www.hitbullseye.com/Vocab/List-Confusing-Words.php 
  3. Inc.com. “15 Misused Words That Make Smart People Look Silly:” https://www.inc.com/brian-de-haaff/15-misused-words-that-make-smart-people-look-silly.html
  4. Touro Education. “Commonly Misused Words”
    https://www.touro.edu/departments/writing-center/tutorials/commonly-misused-words/
Exercise 2: Find the misspelled words and spell them correctly.
  1. The zoo staff was excited to get a new giraff.
  2.  Mother made sourcrout for supper.
  3. The flood caused a delima.
  4. “Lier, lier, pants on fire,” is a children’s rhyme.
  5. The little chiwawa barked mightily.
Most Misspelled Words
  1. “100 Commonly Misspelled Words:” https://www.englishclub.com/spelling/misspellings.php
  2. “Misspelled Words in the U.S.” https://www.daytranslations.com/blog/misspelled-words-in-us/
I hope this post added a smile to your face. Please leave a comment sharing a word you have misused or misspelled. I have misused, it’s and its.
Enjoy your day being yourself. It’s much better than pretending to be someone else.

Resource:

Joan Y. Edwards. “Writing Errors – Commas, Misspellings, No Fatal Flaw Pet Words” https://joanyedwards.com/writing-errors-commas-misspellings-no-fatal-flaw-pet-words/

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Writing

The Picnic – Truth or Fiction – Fatal, Funny, or Fantasy

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I love picnics. Today I invite you to write about a picnic. You can share pictures to illustrate it, too. It can be truth or fiction and fatal, factual, funny, or fantasy…you decide.

How do these characters meet? Why are they having a picnic? Where is the picnic? What happens at the picnic that changes their lives forever?

Here are three characters. You can use them or not, it’s your choice. They are food for thought.

Theodore – Always late but helpful, drives an 18 wheeler for a grocery chain, can’t cook

Sally – Falls in love with every guy she meets, works at a department store in Men’s Cosmetics, good at sales, can’t cook.

Randy – Great organizer,  works for a newspaper as a reporter; can’t cook.

Focus on the description. Use “How Much Description Is Necessary for Your Story?” as a guide.

Remember to tell the following in your story.

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It is such a great story prompt. If you write a few paragraphs about it, please share it with us in the comment area.

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