Although they might look quite similar, there is a big difference in the meanings of recant and recount. Let's see if our friends in The Sentinel can help. ( Read more... )
Excellent. I just grind my teeth in frustration when I see these errors in publications that should know better.
I'd love for someone to do the differences between softly, gently, and quietly.
I've seen all three versions of it in reading about kisses: He kissed her softly. He kissed her gently. He kissed her quietly. It's likely that they all work in some contexts, but for me, two of them sound strange.
I think we all have an awareness that some words used incorrectly can seriously irritate us, even throw us completely out of the mood of a story. I can make allowances if the writer isn't a native English speaker; she can pick up something from a dictionary or thesaurus without realising that context can affect which word is used.
When I was in primary school, we spent hours doing exercises involving putting the correct word in sentences Monotonous? Maybe - but at the end of the day, we knew the proper words to use! A few years later, everything was dumbed down...
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I'd love for someone to do the differences between softly, gently, and quietly.
I've seen all three versions of it in reading about kisses: He kissed her softly. He kissed her gently. He kissed her quietly. It's likely that they all work in some contexts, but for me, two of them sound strange.
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When I was in primary school, we spent hours doing exercises involving putting the correct word in sentences Monotonous? Maybe - but at the end of the day, we knew the proper words to use! A few years later, everything was dumbed down...
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