Big Kudos to you Norexan, this is extremely helpful, even to a native English speaker like myself. I do however have one more suggestion to add. The -er prefix vs. -or prefix, on many cases I'm not sure which to use, and I'm not sure if there is an appropriate way to determine which would be correct.
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' Wrote:I do however have one more suggestion to add. The -er prefix vs. -or prefix, on many cases I'm not sure which to use, and I'm not sure if there is an appropriate way to determine which would be correct.
"-er" and "-or" are suffixes. Which one of them is used depends purely on the word. There is no way to determine which is used except from learning the way a word is spelled.
Here are some words with "-er" suffixes, "player", "driver", "jumper", "runner".
Here are words with "-or" suffixes, "sensor", "advisor", "donor", "spectator"
Just to clarify, the best and only way to use these two suffixes is to actually learn how their related words are spelled. If you are not sure about which suffix to use then a spellchecker usually helps. Memorise the spelling or whatever helps you to remember how to spell them.
Take the other person out of the sentence. If it still makes sense, it's right.
For example:
"Sally and I went to the beach." becomes "I went to the beach." That makes sense, so it's right.
"Dave went to the beach with Sally and me." becomes "Dave went to the beach with me." That makes sense, so it's right.
However:
"Sally and me went to the beach." becomes "Me went to the beach." Unless you're Tarzan, that makes no sense.
"Dave went to the beach with Sally and I." becomes "Dave went to the beach with I." Of course, if "I" is a person's name, that would make sense, but one would have to pity poor I for having such a silly name.
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I'm always mixing up my arid regions with my tasty after dinner treats.
I'm afraid the only way to make sure you distinguish the difference between the two and use each in the right situations is by learning the way they're spelled.
If it helps, try to think of Strawberry Shortcake when you think of "dessert" and "desert" obviously only has one "s".
To clarify, the best way of doing this is to learn them off by heart.
If nobody else has suggested this earlier, (I didn't bother to read the entire thread) you could add except vs. expect.
I often see people mix them together, resulting in odd sentences.
' Wrote:If nobody else has suggested this earlier, (I didn't bother to read the entire thread) you could add except vs. expect.
I often see people mix them together, resulting in odd sentences.
and affect / effect
And except / accept
' Wrote:"-er" and "-or" are suffixes. Which one of them is used depends purely on the word. There is no way to determine which is used except from learning the way a word is spelled.
Here are some words with "-er" suffixes, "player", "driver", "jumper", "runner".
Here are words with "-or" suffixes, "sensor", "advisor", "donor", "spectator"
Just to clarify, the best and only way to use these two suffixes is to actually learn how their related words are spelled. If you are not sure about which suffix to use then a spellchecker usually helps. Memorise the spelling or whatever helps you to remember how to spell them.
Some one told me that -or is for usually for people related, -er is usually for object related. Usually.:rolleyes:
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I find I don't usually have a problem with the grammar side of the English language, it's more the spelling, and it's not even spelling words wrong, it's that I have a tendency to mix up my vowels in words, writing it how I say it out loud.
Like definitely, that's one that used to trip me up a lot. Used to spell it definately.
Another mistake I sometimes make myself when typing absent mindedly is awful vs aweful.
Awful is something terrible and Aweful is something full of awe.