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Accept vs. Except: What’s the Difference?

Accept and except sound almost exactly the same when you say them out loud, but they’re actually totally different words. They don’t mean the same thing at all, and mixing them up in your writing is a pretty big mistake. Read more…


Commonly Confused Words: “Into” vs. “In to”

You might be looking at that title and thinking, “Wait a second . . . aren’t those the same word?” And your confusion is totally understandable. The only difference is one little space—how much does that space actually matter? It Read more…


What Is a Preposition?

“Preposition” is one of those grammar words that seems to be thrown around a lot but never actually clearly explained. Sometimes people seem to (incorrectly) use it as the catch-all: When all the other words in a sentence have been Read more…


Are “Like” and “As” Interchangeable? It’s Complicated.

Which is correct: “It happened like I said it would” or “It happened as I said it would”? What about these: “It tasted like garbage” or “It tasted as garbage”? If you picked the sentence with like in it both Read more…


Ending a Sentence with a Preposition: Your Teacher Probably LIED to You About This Rule

Have you ever been told that you can’t end a sentence with a preposition? Maybe you don’t know what that really means, which makes the rule all the more frightening. Well, breathe a deep sigh of relief because it turns Read more…