Do you know the difference between continually and continuous? When to use I/me, who/whom? How about the difference between everyday and every day?
This grammar cheat sheet is chock full of examples, some of them more obvious than others. Worth bookmarking, especially if you do a lot of writing.
Ain’t it the truth!
I suppose being a journalist makes it easy to say, “No duh!”
But after all these years affect and effect still give me trouble. I have to stop and think. Just a bit of a bump from who and whom. It takes a moment’s pause to sound out my formula in my head. (How do you spell formula in Canada?)
She missed my biggest bugaboo. I was downgraded in a journalism class for this one: Till is what you do with a plow ’til the job is done.
Oxford commas FTW!
On principle not gonna create a Medium account just to post a comment:
As any psychologist will tell you, “affect” is not just a verb – it’s also a noun denoting emotional presentation.
Precisely, affect has more depth than given credit in that post. For example art, literature, media, et cetera can produce affect. You can have an affectual relationship with something. Something can be affective, in that it typically produces some form of psychological or emotional affect.