Usage 4 Flashcards
Capitol; capital
Capital: everything that is capital
Capitol: building
Allusion; illusion
Allusion: reference
Illusion: false idea
Complement; compliment
Complement: to complete
Compliment: to say something nice to someone
Discover; invent
Discover: to find something already there
Invent: to create
Emigrate; immigrate
Emigrate: to leave, exit
Immigrate: to enter; to go somewhere new
Etc. ; and etc. and
Etc.: correct
Etc. and: don’t use
Good; well
Good: adjective describes nouns/pronouns
Well: adverb; answers how?
Imply; infer
Imply: to suggest (speaker)
Infer: to interpret ( listener)
It’s, Its
Its: possessive
It’s: it is
Loose; lose
Loose: not tight
Lose: to not win
Principle; principal
Principle: rule, morals
Principal: person; as adjective means important/goal
Raise; rise
Raise: to force up
Rise: to go up
Respectfully; respectively
Respectfully: done with respect
Respectively: each in the order given
Stationary; stationery
Stationary: a fixed position; un-moving
Stationery: writing paper
Try and; try to
Try to: correct way
Try and: don’t use
