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WERE/WHERE/WE’RE
Similarly, it makes a bad impression if you mix up the three words
above.
‘Were’ is a part of the verb ‘to be’:
We were out late last night.
The builders were working all day.
‘Where’ is either used as a conjunction (joining word) or an interrogative
pronoun:
I asked where he lived.
Where were you going when this happened?
‘We’re’ is the abbreviated form of ‘we are’:
We’re about to leave.
We’re over the moon about this.
Here is a list of words that you should know how to spell correctly
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because you will use them quite often in your essays:
Absence, absolute, abstract, academic, acceptance, accidentally,
accommodation, accordance, accumulation, achievement,
acknowledge, acquire, advertisement, affect, alcohol, allege,
alliance, alliteration, ally, almost, already, altogether, always,
ambiguous, ambivalent, analogy, analysis, ancestors, animal,
answer, apparatus, apparently, appearance, appropriate, argument,
article, assembly, associated, assonance, assume, assumption,
attitude, authority
bankruptcy, barrier, basically, beautiful, because, beginning,
behaviour, beliefs, believe, benefit, benefited, between, bias,
biological, building, business
campaign, capable, capital, career, catalogue, century, chaos,
character, childhood, chronic, chronicle, chronological,
collaborate, college, commentary, commission, committee,
comparatively, comparison, competent, completely, complement,
complimentary, condemn, conflict, conclusion, conscience,
conscientious, conscious, consensus, consistent, conspiracy,
contemporary, context, contextual, continually, contradictory,
corporation, courageous, credibility, criteria (plural), criterion
(singular), critical, criticism, cynicism
data, debate, deceit, decision, defence, definite, description,
desperate, desperately, detached, deterioration, developed,
dialogue, difference, dilemma, disappearance, disastrous,
discipline, discussion, disillusioned, dispute, dissolve, division, duel
ecological, ecstasy, effort, eighth, electricity, elusive,
embarrassment, endeavour, environment, equivalent, essential,
evaluation, evidence, exaggerate, examination, exceed, except,
exceptionally, exchange, excitement, exempt, exercise, exhibition,
existence, expedition, expense, experience, expertise, explanation,
extraordinary, extremely
factors, factually, family, favourite, feasible, feud, financial,
followed, foreign, fortunately, fulfil, fulfilment
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17 – S
PELLING
gauge, generalisation, global, globalisation, government, gradually,
grammar, grotesque, guarantee, guard, guilty
height, heir, heroes, historical, honesty, honour, honourable,
humorous, humour, hypocrisy, hypothetical
identical, identify, identity, illegible, illogical, illusion, illustrate,
imagination, immediately, imminent, impossible, incidentally,
incontrovertible, independence, indigenous, infinite, ingenious,
initial, innate, install, instalment, intellectual, intelligence,
intention, interested, international, interpretation, intrigue,
invention, irrelevant, island, issue
judgement (also judgment)
knowledge, knowledgeable (also knowledgable)
laboratory, language, lawyer, league, lecture, legislation, leisure,
liaison, library, lieutenant, likelihood, literature, logical
maintenance, majority, management, manoeuvre, manufacture,
marriage, materially, mechanically, medicine, menial, metaphor,
miniature, miscellaneous
naturally, necessary, negate, negation, negative, negligent,
negotiate, neutral, neutrality, nullify, numerous
obstacle, obviously, occasionally, occurred, occurrence, omission,
opportunity, ordinarily
parallel, perception, periodically, phase, philosophy, physically,
population, possessions, practically, practice (noun), practise
(verb), prejudice, preparation, pressure, preponderance, prevalent,
principal, principle, privilege, probably, procedure, proceed,
procession, produce, professional, profit, programme, program
(computer context only ), progression, prohibit, pronounce,
propaganda, prophet, proportion, proposition, protection,
psychology, pursue
quality, quantity, query, queue, quiet, quite, quota
reality, receipt, reception, recipe, recommend, reference, referred,
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regional, religious, repetition, reputation, resistance, responsibility,
rhyme, rhythm
satellite, scarcely, schedule, scheme, scholar, science, secretary,
selection, separate, shareholders, similarly, simile, situation,
source, statistics, special, subtle, succeed, successful, sufficient,
suggestion, surprising, suspicious, system, systematic
technical, technique, temperature, temporary, tendency, thorough,
threshold, tolerance, tragedy, triumph, truly, typical, tyranny
unbelievable, uncontrolled, unconventional, undeniable,
underdeveloped, underrate, undoubtedly, unnecessary, unparalleled,
unusual, usually
vague, valid, validation, valuable, valuation, vanguard, variable,
variance, vehement, vision
weather, weird, whether, wilful, withhold
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