Download the app. We have two books: 1 "Smashing Grammar" Written by the founder of Grammar Monster , "Smashing Grammar" has an A-Z glossary of grammar terms, a punctuation section, and a chapter on easily confused words.
Each entry starts with a simple explanation and some basic examples before giving real-life, entertaining examples. Every entry ends with a summary explaining why the grammar point matters to a writer. If you like Grammar Monster, you'll love this book. I need to study more to ensure I get a passing grade. He scored thirty-five points last night, ensuring that his team will have a place in the finals.
The Sydney Morning Herald. The Sacramento Bee. The Guardian. Furthermore, not only is there a good chance your reader also confuses these three words, but there are many circumstances in which they are in fact interchangeable.
We assure you this is a common problem. Each of these words has some meanings which are peculiar to it, some which are not entirely discrete from the others, and some which overlap almost entirely. Before we get into an examination of what the differences might be, it is worth noting that this is one of the many areas of English where there is no unanimity of opinion as to what is correct.
The cynic would be mostly right, at least for much of the history of English, as for hundreds of years insure and ensure were simply spelling variants, and had no more difference between them than theatre and theater. It is not uncommmon to find them used in much the same manner, even within the same sentence. Such an introduction, though it may ensure success, does not necessarily insure a rapid or brilliant one, and for a considerable time his character stood much higher with the profession than with the publick.
However, in the middle of the 19th century some began to find fault with this, and proposed assigning meanings to ensure , insure , and assure in more orderly fashion.
We propose no innovation, except that of so limiting the significations of ensure and insure , enure and inure , that each of these words in en shall become a distinct word, instead of being as now a various spelling. Do you assure your friend it will be alright? This is a tricky one. In fact, ensure and insure have a very close history: insure developed as a spelling variant of ensure and functioned this way for hundreds of years.
Essentially, they were the same word! Well, for one thing, we can help you focus on several ways assure , ensure , and insure are used distinctly today. But we assure people that their concerns are being addressed. We primarily use insure to talk about providing or obtaining insurance , as in After all his car accidents, the company refuses to insure him again. Insure can be used to talk about other kinds of risk, but in that usage, the term is typically followed by the word against , as in We insured against disappointment by making an early reservation.
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