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Frequently Confused Words

a/an accept/except adapt/adopt - O.G. alot/a lot altar/alter  -O.G. a part/apart affect/effect are/our bear/bare because/cause born/borne   - O.G. brake/break  - O.G. beside/besides  - O.G. capital/capitol -O.G. choose/chose/chosen/choosed cite/sight/site compliment/complement coarse/course - O.G. complement/compliment  - O.G. contagious/contiguous  -O.G. council/counsel - O.G. could of/could have or could’ve defiantly/definately/definitely desert/dessert  - O.G. die/dye  - O.G. envelop/envelope emigration/immigration - O.G. farther/further - O.G. formally/formerly - O.G. grammer/grammar hole/whole it’s/its know/no/now lead/led     -O.G. loose/lose loss/lost mine/mines miner/minor - O.G. many/much moral/morale  - O.G. or/our passed/past  - O.G. peace/piece persecute/prosecute  -O.G. personal/personnel  -O.G. persecute/prosecute  -O.G. plain/plane  -O.G. principal/principle -O.G. precede/proceed  -O.G. quiet/quite - O.G. r/are should of/should have or should’ve straight/strait their/there/they’re than/then threw/through till/(til)/until yo/too/tow  -O.G. u/you use to/used to wanna/want to weather/whether we’re/were/where which/witch who/whom who’s/whose would of/would have or would’ve write/right    - O.G. you’re/your