Writamins: Choosing the Right Word

These Writamins clarify commonly confused word pairs and clue you in to the correct forms of popular idioms.
When you want to make sure you’re using the right word, look here.

Someone recently wrote to me, “Your welcome to join us at the dinner reception.” While…
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Writers often wonder about the difference between ‘which’ and ‘that.’ The words function differently depending…
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You would think that when a person applies for a new job, they would take…

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“Words such as rather, pretty, very, and little are the leeches that infest the body of prose, sucking…

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As Mark Twain said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word…

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Avoid annoying your readers by eliminating these problem phrases.
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An idiom is a phrase that fluent speakers generally understand and that would not make sense if…

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Sets of words that sound similar often confuse writers. My book, Get to the Point,…

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