Journal+Common+Mistakes

1. **Spelling of words with silent letters.** EX: Know, Dumb. I am a really bad speller to begin with. When some words have letters that I can't hear when said out loud, I would never know that the silent letter is in the word. I have to actually see the word so that I can see where the silent letter is. I still don't understand why those letters need to be included if they aren't said. 2. **The usage of Kind Of.** The phrase Kind Of, the way I use it, is meant to mean a little or somewhat. The actual meaning of Kind Of is what variety, or species, or type of. If I said, I was kind of sad, I would mean that I was a little sad. This would not fit in my sentence because, I can't be a type of sad or a variety of sad. The word that I should replace Kind Of with is Somewhat. 3. **Words with multiple spellings.** EX: To, Too, Two or Their, There, They're. Like I said in number one, I am a horrible speller. Multiple spellings, just confuse me. These two examples though, I can understand because I have been taught them since first grade. I am now taking Spanish. In Spanish, I have to conjugate verbs to fit different groups of people. This is somewhat like this. 4. **Using the word Like.** EX: The movies was like so dumb. When I talk or give presentations I sometimes use the word like instead of saying um. Neither of these should be used when giving a presentation, but I use it as a filler for when I'm talking and making things up as I go along. I use the word Like when I'm talking to my friends the most. Although I do this when I'm talking I don't ever write Like in my writing because I know that it isn't appropriate. 5. **Abbreviated words or words used ion texts.** When I text, I abbreviate a lot of words so that I can send the text faster. EX: Would=Wud, Because=Cuz, And=N. Sometimes I start to write the abbreviated form of the word on my paper, but most of the time I catch myself. I think that everyone who uses the abbreviated forms knows what the real word is but they are too lazy to care. 6. The biggest mistake that I make would be with accept and except