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Certain words are often the victims of mistaken identity. They look or sound a lot like other words and so people sometimes confuse them. Here are a few such words:
than/then farther/further quiet/quit/quite loose/lose empire/umpire desert/dessert your/you're personal/personnel medal/metal human/humane fury/furry device/devise dairy/diary soup/soap
Words such as dessert and desert are confused because they are spelled almost the same (the only difference being a single "s").
Other words, such as device and devise, sound a lot alike and for some people this may be the main reason they are confused. Remember that different words are confusing to different people. A couple of words which you do not ever confuse, may be often confused by another person.
Select the correct word from the pairs presented in parentheses:
1) Jill wrote about the wedding in her (dairy/diary). 2) Jack ate two bowls of (soap/soup). 3) Jack always eats two servings of (desert/dessert). 4) Jill did her homework and (then/than) she went out to play.