When you’re having a conversation with friends, you are *conversing* (not “conversating”) with them.

“Converse” = ✓

“Conversate” = X

#Vocabulary

🌹By All Means: Yes Certainly, Definitely.

🌹By Any Means: To achieve a goal in any possible way, no matter how.

#Vocabulary

✳️ Wrote = past tense of “write” ✍️

✳️ Rote = memorization by repetition

✍️✍️✍️✍️🤔

I wrote “definitely” 620 times and learned its spelling by rote.

#Vocabulary

The past tense of “speed” is SPED or SPEEDED.👍

Laboratory = room for scientific experiments 🔬

Lavatory = bathroom 🚻

Tell your kid to pee in the *lavatory*, not my *laboratory*! 😡💢

#Vocabulary

💁 FACT:

Stupid → stupider → stupidest.

Clever → cleverer → cleverest.

(Don’t be too surprised.) 😮

#Grammar

In formal writing,

*anyway* → ✔️

“anyways” → ❌

Why are you guys so mad, *anyway*? 😠💢

#Grammar

💁 The past tense of “pet” is *petted*, not “pet”:

In a humorous twist, the dog *petted* the boy.

#Grammar

“Data” 📈 is technically the plural of “datum,” but “data” is now used as a singular or plural noun.

So,

The data IS → ✔

The data ARE → ✔

#Grammar

SIGHT = vision. 👀 👓

SITE = location; website.

CITE = quote; refer to.

Use your *sight* to *cite* the *site* where you found your data.

#Vocabulary

The plural of “hippopotamus” can be either “hippopotami” or “hippopotamuses.”

Avoid the drama and just use “hippos.”☺️✔️

#Grammar

“Mathematics” is also known as
MATH in American English 🇺🇸
and
MATHS in British English 🇬🇧.
They’re the same thing.

1) He is gone. ✔️
2) He has gone. ✔️

3) He has gone home. ✔️
4) He is gone home. ❌

- 'is gone' = is no longer with us
- 'be gone' –> denotes a present state

- 'dispose of' (verb) = to throw away; to get rid of; to kill

- She DISPOSED OF her unwanted possessions before moving. ✔️
- The tyrant cruelly DISPOSED OF all his enemies. ✔️

- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE OF. ✔️
- Bio-diesel can even be made from used cooking oils that homes or restaurants would otherwise DISPOSE. ❌

A squinting modifier (also called two-way modifier) is a type of misplaced modifier.

- have dibs on something / put one's dibs on something