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2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   Every day (two words) is an adverb phrase meaning "daily" or "every weekday". Everyday (one word) is an adjective meaning "ordinary". [48] exacerbate and exasperate. Exacerbate means "to make worse". Exasperate means "to annoy". Standard: Treatment by untrained personnel can exacerbate injuries.

3. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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   The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings:

4. Talk : List of common false etymologies of English words

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   A fact from List of common false etymologies of English words appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows:

5. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   The word crap did not originate as a back-formation of British plumber Thomas Crapper's apt surname. The word crap ultimately comes from Medieval Latin crappa. The word fuck did not originate in the Middle Ages as an acronym. Proposed acronyms include "fornicating under consent of king" or "for unlawful carnal knowledge", used as a sign posted ...

6. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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   The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". [73] It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840.

7. Modern Language Aptitude Test - Wikipedia

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   Spelling Clues/Hidden Words This highly speeded section is designed to test the subject's vocabulary knowledge of English as well as their sound-symbol association ability. Words in Sentences This section is designed to measure the subject's sensitivity to grammatical structure without using any grammatical terminology. Paired Associates

8. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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   The visible section or "overt" is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word. [15] Within sentence word syntax there are 6 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), imperative (a command), locative (relating to a place), and interrogative (asking a ...

9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is Strč prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."