English grammar

1. Pique vs Peak vs Peek :Use the word peak to refer to the pointy top of something, such as the jagged peak of a tall mountain or the tapered peak that forms when you beat egg whites for a recipe.When you peek, you take a quick glance at something. It's incredibly tempting when you're little to peek at your birthday presents, but you soon learn how disappointing it is to spoil the surprise.The verb pique means to make someone angry or annoyed. But when something piques your interest or curiosity, here the verb pique just means to arouse, stimulate, or excite.

2. Compliment vs Complement:The word pairs complement/compliment and complementary/complimentary are pronounced identically, hence the confusion in spelling. Just remember that complement with an E means "to complete" or "to enhance," while compliment with an I means "to praise" and complimentary means "free."

3. affect vs Effect:Affect is usually a verb, and effect is usually a noun. To affect something is to change or influence it, and an effect is something that happens due to a caus

4. Should've and Could've:Should have, could have, and would have are sometimes called “modals of lost opportunity” because they describe situations when we are imagining that the past was different.

5. Incomplete comparaisons

6. You're vs your:You're is a contraction of you are. It has no other uses. This is a 100% rule. If you cannot expand it to you are in your sentence, then it is wrong.The word your sits before another word (usually a noun or a pronoun) to show that it belongs to "you" (e.g., your car, your arm), is of "you" (e.g., your picture, your photograph) or is related to "you" (e.g., your uncle).

7. It's vs Its:It’s is a contraction of it is or it has.Its is the possessive form of it.

8. Between vs Among

9. Farther vs Further

10. A lot, alot and allot

11. Commas: to separate groups or to list items

12. Assure, Ensure, Insure: insure is to provide insurance for something, ensure is to make something sure, and assure is to make something sure.

13. Dangling modifiers

14. I.E vs I.G

15. Who vs That

16. Semi-colon: coordinating function