📖 Confusing Words Rules: How to Tell Them Apart

Level: B1 | Focus: Rules and memory tricks for commonly confused words

Vocabulary Confusing Words confusing words rules grammar

1. Affect vs Effect

Affect = verb (influence) | Effect = noun (result)
Memory: A for Action, E for End result

Lie = recline (no object) | Lay = place (needs object)
Memory: You lay something down; you lie down yourself.

Rise = go up on its own (no object) | Raise = lift something (needs object)

Accept = receive, agree | Except = excluding

Lose = misplace, fail to win | Loose = not tight

Then = time/next | Than = comparison

Your = possessive | You're = you are

Its = possessive | It's = it is / it has