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www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/advice_advise.htm

Who knows all these?? (be honest!)

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/affect_effect.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/practice_practise.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/principal_principle.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/stationary_stationery.htm

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Harrow said..
Who knows all these?? (be honest!)

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/affect_effect.htm

This one has been doing my head in for years. I think that's the best page I've read yet on the difference. It has had a large effect on me. My thinking on it has even been affected.

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Harrow said..
Who knows all these?? (be honest!)

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/affect_effect.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/practice_practise.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/principal_principle.htm

www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/stationary_stationery.htm

For goodness sake!!! Anybody who passed their exams in primary school should know them!!

Your question just proves that the New World Order/One World Government agenda of "Dumbing Down the Population" is working.

Pair, pear,pare, there, their, where, wear, ware, hear, here, heir, air, soul, sole, whole, hole and the list goes on.

For a group of contributors to this forum who seem to regard themselves as educated and au fait with what is going on in the world it is atrocious to see the lack of mastery of the English language that is more often than not presented on this forum.

Wise up people!! We are supposed to be the smart country.

What our journalists write in our news papers is a bad advertisement for Australia.

R u getin wot i im torkin about?????? If not its 2 l8.

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cisco said..

Wise up people!! We are supposed to be the smart country.

No, I think David Horne had it right in the first place.

English is the hardest language in the world.

I recently studied Greek and I found the lettering system, the phonetics and the way to spell out words sooo much easier. The only difficulty was knowing what the words meant!