Monday Muddle: area, aria
area: (noun) a location; a region; the measurement of a surface aria: (noun) a piece of music, typically an elaborate melody performed as a solo in an opera
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Monday Muddle: our, are
our: (possessive adjective) indicates that something belongs to us are: (verb) a form of the verb ‘to be’; indicates existence; used in the present tense with the subjects you, we, and they
Monday Muddle: inconvenience, incontinence
inconvenience: (noun) a situation that causes trouble or difficulty; something that is not easily accessible or at a suitable time; something that doesn’t meet your needs incontinence: (noun) inability to control the release of urine or fecal matter from your body
Monday Muddle: duck, duct
duck: (noun) a type of waterbird; meat from that waterbird; a heavy cotton or linen fabric used to make sails and duck tape, now called duct tape unless referring specifically to the brand Duck Tape ® duct: (noun) an enclosed channel that allows the passage of a substanceFor example: heating …
Monday Muddle: you’re, your, yore
you’re: (subject pronoun + verb) contraction of you are your: (possessive pronoun) shows that you own something; it belongs to you yore: (noun) a time long ago
Monday Muddle: palate, palette, pallet, pallid
palate: (noun) roof of the mouth; preference in taste or flavour palette: (noun) the board used by artists for their paints; the range of colours used in art or makeup; (adjective) used with the word knife to describe a tool used by an artist to spread paint pallet: (noun) a …
Monday Muddle: I’ll, ill
I’ll: (subject pronoun + verb) contraction of I will ill: (adjective) unwell, sick; (adverb) badly, hardly; (noun) harm, misfortune
Monday Muddle: aisle, isle, aile
aisle: (noun) a passage between rows of seats or between shelves isle: (noun) island aile: (noun) French for wing
Monday Muddle: cloth, cloths, clothe, clothes
cloth: (noun) fabric; material made by joining fibres cloths: (noun, plural) small pieces of cloth, often used for washing clothe: (verb) to put garments on; to dress clothes: (noun, plural) garments; items you wear, usually made of cloth; (verb) the third person singular form of the verb to clothe
Monday Muddle: forth, fourth
forth: (adverb) forward or outward from a starting point fourth: (adjective, noun) ordinal number; number four in a series; (noun) 25% of the whole March 4th was chosen as Grammar Day, because the date is also a complete sentence. How will you celebrate tomorrow?