Because even though spelling/grammar is pretty much arbitrary and made-up, sometimes getting a word right can be a big confidence boost!
Words like practise/practice, device/devise can be tricky not only bcos they sound similar but because they are often the verb/noun versions of each other.
Advice = noun - “here’s some advice”
Advise = verb - “I can advise you”
Hack: “Ice”, the cold, hard thing, is a NOUN, so the noun version of these words end in -ice
Hack: one Collar and two Sleeves, OR one Condom = Safe Sex
Effect = noun - “the effects of the Ice Age”
Affect = verb - “the Ice Age affected geology”
Hack: ‘Special Effects’, a noun (you can put ‘the’ in front) is abbreviated to SFX so ‘ef’ for ‘F’
Sound it out. Qui-et, Quiiiiite (magic e!), Quit
Hack: “Keep quIET about my dIET”, or, “quITE polITE” or “quIT IT’
“he spoke aloud” and “he was allowed to speak” - these words are not related
“I like all the friends, except Ross”, “I accept that Ross is a dick”
Hack: ‘Accept’ can mean the same as ‘agree’*, so if you can replace it in the sentence, “I agree that Ross is a dick”, use A.
*or ‘agree to take’, as in “I accept the blame/your hand in marriage”
“Except” is the same as ‘excluding’, if you can replace it with “excluding Ross”, then use E.
There = a place, over there
Their = possessive pronoun, their hat
They’re = contraction of ‘they are’, they’re lovely
Hack: ‘HERE’ is a place, so is ‘tHERE
Can you replace it with ‘they are’? If so use ‘they’re’
The ‘HEIR’ of a person gets the house. The house is ‘tHEIRs’
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