This document provides examples of common grammatical errors and explains the correct usage of certain words that are often confused or misused in writing. It lists 25 pairs of words where one is often used incorrectly, such as "your" versus "you're", "affect" versus "effect", "peek" versus "peak", and "complement" versus "compliment". Maintaining proper grammar is important to establish credibility when writing.

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2. GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
THAT KILL YOUR WRITING CREDIBILITY
• Grammatical error is a term used in prescriptive
grammar to describe an instance of faulty,
unconventional, or controversial usage, such as
a ​misplaced modifier or an inappropriate verb
tense. Also called a usage error. We will
compare grammatical error with correctness.
• It's also known as: error, usage error, grammar
error or mistake, bad grammar
• Grammatical errors are usually distinguished
from (though sometimes confused with) factual
errors, logical
fallacies, misspellings, typographical errors, and
faulty punctuation.

3. ★ Who = subjective pronoun, like “he,” “she,” “it” – acts as a subject.
★ Whom = objective pronoun, like “him,” “her” “us”
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4. ★ Lay – transitive verb; needs a direct subject and an object.
★ Lie – intransitive verb and needs no object.
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5. ★ Continual = something is constantly occurring, but with lapses in occurrences.
★ Continuous = something that continues without any stops or gaps.
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6. THE USEOF
Whether & If
★ Whether = conditional; used when there are two or more alternatives
★ If = no alternatives
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7. ★ Farther = used for physical distance.
★ Further = used for abstract lengths.
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8. ★ Disinterested = someone who is impartial. No bias.
★ Uninterested = someone who really just couldn’t care less.
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9. ★ Since = time-related..
★ Because = cause related..
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10. ★ Bring = moving an object towards something.
★ Take = moving an object away from something..
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11. ★ Affect = almost always a verb; means to influence..
★ Effect = usually describes the result or an outcome. In some cases, is used
as a transitive verb..
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12. ★ I.e. = you are describing the essence of something..
★ E.g. = basically used for listing down or enumerating examples..
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13. ★ Which = refers to object/non-humans..
★ Who = refers to humans..
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14. ★ Your = Possessive. Your dog, your bag, your car.
★ You’re = You + are. Describes a state of being. You’re a doctor. You’re a
teacher. You’re a child.
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15. THE USE OF
★ They’re = they + are. Describes a state of being. They’re cooking.
★ There = location of something., I live there. I eat there. You work there.
★ Their = possessive. Their dog. Their house. Their apples..
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16. ★ It’s – It + is. Describes a state of being. It’s a boy. It’s running.
★ Its – Possessive. Its tail, its eyes, its whiskers.
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17. ★ I = Subject. Like he, she and it.
★ Me = Objective pronoun, similar to him, her, them.
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18. THE USE OF
★ Peek = you take a quick look at something.
★ Peak = the highest point of something, the peak of a mountain.
★ Pique = to provoke something.
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19. THE USE OF
★ Complement = something that completes or enhances something else.
★ Compliment = an expression of admiration for something or someone.
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20. ★ Between = used when something is in the middle of two things.
★ Among = being located within a group of things.
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21. ★ Then = used when you are situating events in time..
★ Than = used for comparisons.
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22. THE USE OF
★ All of them are wrong. Correct = could have, would have, should have.
★ Further = used for abstract lengths.
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23. ★ Two = Two dogs. Two cows. Two hands.
★ Too = As well.
★ To = Used for infinitive forms of verbs. To eat, to sleep, to breathe.
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24. THE USE OF
★ These words do not exist.
They do not need prefixes to express what they are defining.
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25. ★ Allot = means to assign.
★ A lot = means there are many.
★ Alot = is not a word..
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26. ★ Loose = something is not tight.
★ Lose = means to misplace something.
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27. THE USE OF
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★ “The use of pencils is required for the exam.”
★ “The problems of that boy are pressing.”
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28. THANK YOU
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