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By Teresa

Last updated on March 15th, 2021 at 08:20 pm

Blogging for a living means I spend a lot of time online. I read social media posts and blogs every day, and that means I see plenty of bad writing–and good too, of course. One of the mistakes writers make is choosing the wrong word when there are two that sound the same but have different meanings.

I’m sure you’ve seen “your” when someone really meant “you’re,” for example. It’s not a big deal in a Facebook post, but if you’re a blogger or are writing a college paper, it is. Here are some of the most common homonyms–words that sound the same but have different meanings.

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Source: www.grammarcheck.net