“Unlocking Language Secrets: Discover the Surprising World of Homophones That Can Trip You Up!”
As an example, let’s look at the homophones affect vs. effect. If you’re in a hurry or if you’re not fully concentrating on the task at hand, you could easily mistype the first letter of either of those words and end up with something like the following:
- That movie had great special affects. (wrong: it should be special effects)
- That movie effected me deeply. (wrong: it should be affected)
In the examples above, just one little letter was mistyped in each sentence. Typos like these happen all the time. That’s why we run spell-check and proofread our work. But since both affects and effected in the examples above are correct spellings, a program like Microsoft Word won’t catch them. In other words, spell-check cannot check to see if you are using words correctly.
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