COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS - Adapted from Commonly Confused Words, Academic Skills Know-how, adopted Children are adopted, but parents are adoptive adoptive adverse adverse means unfavourable or bad, while averse strong dislike or being averse opposed to, e.g. am averse to injections’. ‘I affect affect means a difference to’, whereas effect means result’ or ‘make ‘a effect about (a result)’ ‘bring ambiguous ambiguous primarily means having more than one meaning or being open to ambivalent interpretations, while ambivalent means having mixed feelings. amoral amoral not concerned with morality, while immoral means not immoral conforming to accepted standards of morality. appraise appraise means assess, while apprise is to inform apprise been been is the past participle form of be. It is used have in any form (has, being had, will have) e.g. have been to Brazil’ or have been to town’. ‘I ‘I being is never used after 'have'. 'Being' is used after 'to be' in any form (is, was, were) e.g. was being silly’ or is being very clever’. It can also be ‘He ‘She used as a noun as in being’. ‘human borrow borrow is a regular verb meaning something from someone, intending ‘get lend to give it back a short time’, e.g. I borrow a pen please’? lend ‘Could means something to someone for a short time, expecting that you will ‘give get it back’ e.g. will lend you my copy of Wuthering Heights’, or in the past ‘I tense, lent Emma my copy of Wuthering Heights’. ‘I censure censure to express strong disapproval of, whereas censor means to censor suppress unacceptable parts of (e.g.a film or book). climactic climactic forming a climax, e.g.as in a musical crescendo but climatic to climatic do with climate, as in rainfall, temperature etc.
COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS - Adapted from Commonly Confused Words, Academic Skills Know-how, adopted adoptive Children are adopted, but parents are adoptive adverse averse adverse means unfavourable or bad, while averse strong dislike or being opposed to, e.g. ‘I am averse to injections’. affect effect affect means ‘make a difference to’, whereas effect means ‘a result’ or ‘bring about (a result)’ ambiguous ambivalent ambiguous primarily means having more than one meaning or being open to interpretations, while ambivalent means having mixed feelings. amoral immoral amoral not concerned with morality, while immoral means not conforming to accepted standards of morality. appraise apprise appraise means assess, while apprise is to inform been being been is the past participle form of be. It is used have in any form (has, had, will have) e.g. ‘I have been to Brazil’ or ‘I have been to town’. being is never used after 'have'. 'Being' is used after 'to be' in any form (is, was, were) e.g. ‘He was being silly’ or ‘She is being very clever’. It can also be used as a noun as in ‘human being’. borrow lend borrow is a regular verb meaning ‘get something from someone, intending to give it back a short time’, e.g. ‘Could I borrow a pen please’? lend means ‘give something to someone for a short time, expecting that you will get it back’ e.g. ‘I will lend you my copy of Wuthering Heights’, or in the past tense, ‘I lent Emma my copy of Wuthering Heights’. censure censor censure to express strong disapproval of, whereas censor means to suppress unacceptable parts of (e.g.a film or book). climactic climatic climactic forming a climax, e.g.as in a musical crescendo but climatic to do with climate, as in rainfall, temperature etc.