Here's the third in my series on tips for writers. These three words are commonly mistaken for each other: where, we're and wear. We're going to a place where we can wear casual clothes. We're (we are) going to a place where (location) we can wear (clothing/adornment) casual clothes. So, as shown in the sentence above: "we're" is a contraction (joining) of two words; "where" is a location; and, "wear" is used for an adornment (eg clothing/jewellery). Note that "wear" is also the spelling fo

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I hope my last post, Tip for writers - There, their, they're helped you out. As mentioned in that post, my next tip for writers is about it's and its.They are commonly mistaken but I'll show you how to get them right. I think it will be easier to explain it's first. It's It's is a contraction. Which means that it is shorthand for "it is" or "it has". You use it's to join the two words together so you're being less formal. Think of the apostrophe (') as a little staple stick

Welcome to the first in a small series of grammar tips that I thought might help while you're writing your content. I've chosen some very common mistakes that people make but once fixed, can help to make your content look a lot more professional. Now if you're an English teacher (which I'm not) please feel free to correct me, or to help explain further if I haven't gone far enough to explain, but keep in mind I'm trying to make this simple, so we don't have to delve too far into verbs a