Here are 15 commonly misused words, and the right way to use them.

The words read, rede, reed sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. The answer is simple: read, rede, reed are homophones of the English language. …

The past tense of read is read, spelt the same but pronounced differently. It is pronounced as red. The past participle of the verb read is the same as the past form read that is pronounced as red.

If you are using read as a noun, pronounce it so that it rhymes with seed. Otherwise, if the verb is past tense, rhyme read with bed. For present and future tenses, rhyme read with seed. Since read and said are two past tense verbs that rhyme, you should be able to remember that read rhymes with said in the past tense.

bewildered (related) Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or.

• Irregardless. I am not sure how “irregardless” crept into our vocabulary, but the correct word is “regardless.”
• Literally.
• Excetera.
• Supposably.
• Preemptory.
• Realator.
• Expresso.
• Australia.

Take a guess at what this sentence means – “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” It really has a proper meaning. And it’s part of a whole group of one-word sentences.

Originally Answered: What is the most difficult sentence in the English language? The runners-up are: A 1,288-word sentence from Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner. A 3,687-word sentence from Ulysses by James Joyce.

One of Molly Bloom’s soliloquies in James Joyce’s epic novel ‘Ulysses’ features a sentence of 4,491 words. The Guinness Book of Records lists the longest proper sentence as one from William Faulkner’s novel ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ (1,287 words).

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