Some Confusing English Pairs
The following pairs of words can be confusing to English students.
Try and create a sentence with each word to help other students identify the differences between the pears and spot & explain the deliberate mistake:
1. Dessert and desert
2. There and their
3. Accept and except
4. Principal and principle
5. Break and brake
6. Affect and effect
7. Personnel and personal
8. Weather and whether
9. Write and right
10. Stationary and stationery
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It's nothing personal, the principal principle of our times is that their right to take a break and eat dessert right there in the dessert whether or not it has bad effects (except when the personnel objects, of course, in writing and on official stationery) no matter how silly hitting the brake and remaining stationary in such weather might seem, is just something you'll have to accept you can't affect it.
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Some Confusing English Pairs
The following pairs of words can be confusing to English students.Try and create a sentence with each word to help other students identify the differences between the pears and spot & explain the deliberate mistake:
1. Dessert and desert
2. There and their
3. Accept and except
4. Principal and principle
5. Break and brake
6. Affect and effect
7. Personnel and personal
8. Weather and whether
9. Write and right
10. Stationary and stationery
1. I plan to eat two desserts after dinner because tomorrow, I am going to the Gobi desert. I hope my friends do not desert me.
2. There they go again, bragging about their exploits.
3. I accept the fact that every rule has at least one exception.
4. One principle I live by is that the school principal should be your pal.
5. I slammed on the break and stopped so abruptly I thought I was going to break my neck.
6. Cold weather affects my sinuses but has no effect on my joints.
7. My personal opinion is that we need to hire more personnel during the peak hours.
8. Whether it rains or snows in Indiana, the weather is always pleasant in Florida.
9. I am going to sit down and write my friend a letter and hope that I get everything right the first time.
10. I went to the store to buy stationery. When I tried to pay the cashier, she remained stationary and would not move an inch.
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