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Eliminate confusion with our English confusable words activities! Even native speakers sometimes mix up words like "their" and "there". These activities provide detailed explanations and exercises to help you use these commonly confused words correctly and avoid mistakes in the future. Whether you're a student or a professional, our activities are designed to help you master these tricky words and take your English language proficiency to the next level. Improve your language skills and avoid confusion with our confusable words activities today!
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Fur or Fir - Homophones
The two words fur and fir are homophones in English and cause a lot of pronunciation confusion for students. I mean, how can two words that are radically different have exactly the same sound? There are many homophones in English and this lesson is designed to help you master these two. Not only does it deal with the words fir and fur, but it also deals with words like furred, furry, furlike, furl, furlong, furlough, furnace, furniture, furore, further, fury, fire, firkin, firm, first, fifth, and firth. This lesson will help you to pronounce all of the...
Fun or Funny
A common mistake that students of English make is the use of the words fun and funny. Both can be used as adjectives, but they are not interchangeable and have some important differences of meaning. Only fun is used as a noun. This lesson will help you to understand the difference between fun and funny and give you some practice to help you better understand the difference. I hope that you find the lesson as much fun to do as I did to make.
Food and Drink Collocations
Collocations are ground of words which normally go together such as paint a picture. To say make a picture or do a picture sound strange to native English speakers. If you use the correct collocations when speaking or writing in English, you will sound much more natural and much more like a native British English speaker. This lesson looks at some common collocations to do with food and eating. Makes notes of the new vocabulary in your personal Study Record which you will find on each lesson page in the Britlish Library. This language is very use...
Few Little Challenge
The two quantifiers, little and few, cause a lot of problems for students of English. In this Challenge, you will have to answer 20 questions about the use of little and few and a little and a few in 10 minutes if you want your name to appear at the top of the leader board. Take a little time to think about the questions as you want to get as few as possible wrong. With a little thought, you might be one of the few people who can get them all right.
Faults or Mistakes
If you have ever made a mistake or feel that you have faults, then this lesson is for you. You will learn how to use the words, blunder, error, failing, fault, faux pas, flaw, guilty, mistake, to blame, and weakness, without making any mistakes when you do so.
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