There are tricky word pairs which can easily trip you up in your writing. Take 'every day' and 'everyday', for example. Do you know the difference? Here are a few tips to help you differentiate between the two and use them correctly...

1. What’s the difference?
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2. EVERY DAY is an adverbial phrase which
means ‘each day’.
Leslie eats healthy and exercises every day.
Brenda walks her dogs past our house every day.
I have to practise the violin every day for two hours.
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3. EVERYDAY is an adjective which means
‘ordinary’, ‘commonplace’ or ‘routine’.
She manages to incorporate art into her everyday life.
It has become an everyday occurrence around here.
His everyday wear is a white shirt and black trousers.
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4. :
:
2 separate words like ‘every
morning/evening/night’, etc. so
an adj. can be inserted between
them e.g. ‘every single day’
1 compound word like
‘commonplace’ so no word can
be inserted between the two
elements of the compound word
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