Cami Sabin - post #6

The words that confuse me most are precede and proceed. I know, I should have this down by now. I don't know why I always seem to get them wrong, because it's actually quite simple to tell them apart. Precede has the prefix "pre," which means before. So precede means the event comes before something else. Proceed, of course, means to continue.

I also have to stop and think every time I write meet/meat or week/weak. I know the meanings of these words, but I double-check myself every time I use one of them. I suppose it's better to get it right the first time than to write the wrong thing. ("I'd like to meat her" doesn't sound very polite.)

The Standard-Examiner ran an article about a couple who literally moves homes - picking them up off of their foundations and relocating them to new spots. The error I found is in the first part of the paragraph. It reads: "Shavon Hill, who with her husband, Chad, owns Intermountain House and Structure Movers."

While this phrase is styled as a sentence, it is not a complete sentence because there is no action happening here. "Shavon Hill" would be the subject of the sentence and the remainder of the phrase is a dependent clause, but the author doesn't finish the sentence.