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conjunctions and introduce subordinate clauses. Never use
like before a clause.
I felt
like a stuffed crab after the feast.
The pigeons flew away,
as they always do when scared.
loose, lose
Use
loose to mean “not firmly attached” and
lose to mean “to
misplace,” or “to fail to win.”
You don’t want to
lose your nice pair of
loose jeans.
passed, past
Passed is the past tense and the
past participle of the verb to pass. Past can be an
adjective, a preposition, an adverb, or a noun.
He
passed the exit ramp because
he could not see the sign past the bushes.
precede, proceed
Precede means “to go or come before.”
Proceed means “to continue.”
We can
proceed with the plans.
From a distance, lightning appears to
precede thunder.
raise, rise
Raise means “to
cause to move upward,” and it always takes an object.
Rise means “to
get up”; it is intransitive and never takes an object.
Raise the drawbridge!
For some, it is difficult to
rise in the morning.
reason is because
Use either
reason is that or
because.
The
reason why
he left is that he was bored.
He left
because he was bored.
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