Some Words go Two Ways
rogersgeorge on July 18th, 2017
Some common words are one word when they’re adjectives and two words when they are nouns. Lots of text in this comic, but look at the bottom full line in the second panel.
“Everyday” as one word is an adjective! What she means is “every day.”
Here are a couple more that come to mind:
- altogether, all together;
- already, all ready;
- alright, all right;
- aftermath, after math. (Okay, not many are likely to confuse those two.)
Can you make a couple correct sentences with them? Can you list a few more such words? (Put them in the comments.)
That third one is particularly irritating to me. Here’s a good quote about it:
Word Fact: Alright vs. All Right. … The form alright is a one-word spelling of the phrase all right. Alright is commonly used in written dialogue and informal writing, but all right is the only acceptable form in edited writing. Basically, it is not all right to use alright in place of all right in standard English.
“Edited writing”—a nice turn of phrase.
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