Monday grammar: #5
AND BREATHE. Or is that 'and breath'?
A weekly crash course in the essential and oft-misunderstood basics of spelling, grammar and general language. If you want to sound like you’ve got your sh*t together in work, on Whatsapp or wherever you communicate, this will help. Spread the word!
THIS WEEK
Breath vs. Breathe
MOTHER OF GOD if I see this one more time I will buy an urn and prep myself for entry to it. My sister reminded me of this one recently by (hashtag grateful and blessed) checking with me before she wrote it in case she’d gotten it wrong. She hadn’t – what a gal.
Sure, the difference is a *bit* of an enigma but in the typically intricate tapestry of language, the difference is quite literally what gives both words their meaning.
That little ‘e’ at the end changes things dramatically.