Angela’s ABCs Passed and Past
Words often confused Passed and past are commonly confused, but I hope to explain the difference so that you’ll never confuse them again. Passed can only ever be part of the verb ‘to pass’. It is the...
View ArticleAngela’s ABCs – Lie and Lay
Words often confused: lie and lay The verbs to lie and to lay have very different meanings: To lie means to rest, to recline or to be in a horizontal position. To lay means to put or to place. There is...
View ArticleLeveraging – A Buzzword for our Times by Angela Caldin
Leverage, a Noun that’s become a Verb Leverage has joined that increasing band of words that are now used as verbs as well as nouns, such as impact, access, action, transition, dialogue. I recently...
View ArticleAngela’s ABCs – Words easily confused: Instil and Install by Angela Caldin
Instil This means to put a feeling, idea, attitude, behaviour or principle gradually and by continuous effort into someone’s mind, so that it has a strong influence on the way they think or behave. It...
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