My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English

alright/all right
Chambers Dictionary describes alright as an alternative, less acceptable spelling
of all right .
Useful mnemonic: It’s either all right or all wrong.
altogether/all together
Altogether , it’s sixty miles.
All together now: ‘Sixty miles to go… ’
anyone/any one
Does this bag belong to anyone ?
It could belong to any one of those tourists over there.
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always/all ways
I always get lost in Rome.
All ways lead to Rome.
cannot/can not

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Either is acceptable, but cannot is more common. Sometimes can not may be the
better choice if you want to be emphatic: No, you can not speak Swahili .
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everyday/every day
His everyday life is very dull, but at night he’s in a cabaret act.
Every day I dream of becoming a showgirl.
everyone/every one
Everyone has a guilty secret.
Every one of you pretends not to like Barry Manilow.
into/in to
I can’t seem to get into the office.
I was hoping to go in to use the free internet.
maybe/may be
Maybe you’ll remember what I tell you in future.
Although it may be that I forgot to tell you in the first place .
nobody/no body, somebody/some body, anybody/any body
Nobody was at the crime scene, so I assumed they’d all gone home.
There was a lot of blood at the crime scene, but no body .
I think somebody is trying to break in.
Gosh, that burglar has quite some body .
Will  any  body  do  for  the  bikini  advert,  or  does  anybody  here  happen  to  have
Pamela Anderson’s contact details?