False friends/commonly confused words
Choosing the wrong word when speaking English can have unexpected results. Make sure not to mix up some of the following words:
- I can advise (verb) someone by giving them some advice (noun), but advice is never advices
- you can cook chicken (noun) in a kitchen (noun), but you cannot cook a kitchen in a chicken
- clock (noun) is not worn on your wrist, whereas a watch (noun) is
- cook (personal noun) is not the same as the machine cooker (noun)
- You feel (verb) good, but not if you fall (verb) over. Remember the different verb forms: feel, felt, felt; fall, fell, fallen
- If something is funny (adjective or noun), it makes you laugh, which means you have fun (noun)
- hot (adjective) is when the weather is not cold because there is too much heat (noun)
- hunger (verb or noun) is when you have not eaten, whilst anger (verb or noun) is how you feel because you are hungry (adjective)
- make (verb) friends is not the same as do (verb) friends, at least not in English!
- I can practise (verb) sports if I am a professional, but normally I play (verb) or do (verb) sports
- scientific (adj) is not the same as scientist (noun)
- You see (verb in this case) your friends, but watch (verb in this case) television
- when we go on a trip (noun) we travel (verb), but if we only go one way we make a journey (noun)
- wish (verb in this case) is usually pessimistic, whilst hope (verb in this case) is optimistic. Example, I hope to understand English :) or I wish English was not so difficult :(
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