Improve_Your_Written_English

He is taller thanme.

She was angrier thanhim.

If the verb was added instead of being ‘understood’, it would
sound quite wrong:

He was taller thanme am.

She was angrier thanhim was.

Revising spelling

◆ Learn the most commonly misspelled words. Revise the
list on pages 69–70.

◆ Learn the correct spelling of homophones:

hear – here

their – there – they’re

sea – see

too – two – to

your – you’re

The words ‘practise’ and ‘practice’ are often confused and so
are ‘advise’ and ‘advice’. ‘Practise’ and ‘advise’ are theverbs
and ‘practice‘ and ‘advice’ are thenouns:

You mustpractise the piano if you are to improve.

There is a cricketpractice in the nets today.

Iadvise you to behave yourself.

She always refused to takeadvice.

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