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POTATO
potato
(singular) potatoes (plural)
See
PLURALS
(iv).
practical
or
practicable?
A
PRACTICAL
person
is one who is
good
at
doing
and
making things.
A
PRACTICAL
suggestion
is a
sensible, realistic
one
that
is
likely
to
succeed.
A
PRACTICABLE

suggestion
is
merely
one
that will
work.
The
word
'practicable'
means
'able
to be put
into
practice'.
It
does
not
carry
all the
additional
meanings
of
'practical'.
practice
or
practise?
Use
these exemplar sentences
as a
guide:

PRACTICE
makes perfect.
An
hour's
PRACTICE
every
day
will yield returns.
The
young doctor
has
built
up a
busy
PRACTICE.
In
the
examples above,
'practice'
is a
noun.
You
should
PRACTISE
every day.
PRACTISE
now!
In
these examples,
'practise'

is a
verb.
precede
or
proceed?
PRECEDE
= to go in
front
of
PROCEED
= to
carry
on,
especially
after
having
stopped
prefer
preferred,
preferring, preference
See
ADDING ENDINGS (iv).
prehaps
Wrong
spelling.
See
PERHAPS.
prejudice
(not
predjudice)

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prepositions
Prepositions
are
small words like
'by',
'with',
'for',
'to',
which
are
placed before nouns
and
pronouns
to
show
how
they connect with other words
in the
sentence:
They
gave
the
flowers
TO
their mother.
Let
him sit
NEAR

you.
Two
problems
can
arise with prepositions.
(i)
Take care
to
choose
the
correct preposition.
A
good dictionary will help
you:
comply
with
protest
at
deficient
in
ignorant
of
similar
to, and so on.
(ii)
Don't take
too
seriously
the
oft-repeated advice

not to end a
sentence with
a
preposition.
Use
your
discretion,
and
word your sentence
however
it
sounds best
to
you.
Do
you
prefer
the first or the
second sentence
here?
(a)
WITH whom
are
you?
(b)
Who are you
WITH?
Which
do you
prefer

here?
(c)
She's
a
politician
FOR
whom
I
have
a
great
deal
of
respect.
(d)
She's
a
politician
I
have
a
great deal
of
respect
FOR.
present
(not
-ant)
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PRESENT

PRESUME
presume
See
ASSUME
OR
PRESUME?.
priest
See
EI/IE
SPELLING RULE.
primitive
(not -mat-)
principal
or
principle?
Use
these exemplar sentences
as a
guide:
Rebuilding
the
school
is
their
PRINCIPAL
aim.
(=
chief)
The
PRINCIPAL

announced
the
results.
(=
chief
teacher)
His
guiding
PRINCIPLE
was to
judge
no one
hastily.
(=
moral rule)
privilege
(not
privelege
or
priviledge)
probable
See
POSSIBLE
OR
PROBABLE?.
probably
(not
propably)
procedure
(not

proceedure)
proceed
See
PRECEDE
OR
PROCEED?.
proclaim
proclamation
(not -claim-)
profession
(not
-ff-)
professional
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PROPHECY
OR
PROPHESY?
professor
profit
profited,
profiting
See
ADDING ENDINGS (iv).
prognosis
See
DIAGNOSIS
OR
PROGNOSIS?.
prognosis
(singular)

prognoses
(plural)
See
FOREIGN
PLURALS.
program
or
programme?
Use
PROGRAM
when referring
to a
computer
program.
Use
PROGRAMME
on all
other occasions.
prominent
(not
-ant)
pronounceable
(not
pronouncable)
See
SOFT
c
AND
SOFT
G.

pronouns
See
I/ME/MYSELF.
See
WHO/WHOM.
See
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
pronunciation
(not
pronounciation)
propably
Wrong
spelling.
See
PROBABLY.
propaganda
(not
propo-)
proper
nouns
See
NOUNS.
prophecy
or
prophesy?
These
two
words look very similar
but are
pronounced

differently.
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PROPOGANDA
The
last syllable
of
PROPHECY
rhymes with
'sea';
the
last syllable
of
PROPHESY
rhymes with
'sigh'.
Use
the
exemplar
sentences
as a
guide:
Most
of us
believed
her
PROPHECY
that
the
world
would

end on 31
December,
(prophecy
= a
noun)
In
the
example above,
you
could substitute
the
noun
'prediction'.
We
all
heard
him
PROPHESY
that
the
world would
end at the
weekend,
(prophesy
= a
verb)
In
the
example above,
you

could substitute
the
verb
'predict'.
propoganda
Wrong
spelling.
See
PROPAGANDA.
protein
See
EI/IE
SPELLING
RULE.
psychiatrist
psychiatry
psychologist
psychology
publicly
(not publically)
punctuation
See
under individual entries:
APOSTROPHES;
BRACKETS;
CAPITAL
LETTERS;
COLONS;
COMMAS;
DASHES;

EXCLAMATION
MARKS;
HYPHENS;
INVERTED
COMMAS;
SEMICOLONS;
QUESTION
MARKS.
See
also
END
STOPS.
pyjamas
(American
English:
pajamas)
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quarrel
quarrelled, quarrelling
See
ADDING ENDINGS (iv).
quarrelsome
quarter
question
marks
A
question mark
is the
correct
end

stop
for a
question. Note that
it has its own
built-in
full
stop
and
doesn't
require another.
Has
anyone seen
my
glasses?
Note
that indirect questions
do not
require question
marks
because they have become statements
in the
process
and
need
full
stops.
He
asked
if
anyone

had
seen
his
glasses.
See
INDIRECT
SPEECH/REPORTED
SPEECH.
questionnaire
(not -n-)
questions
(direct
and
indirect)
See
QUESTION
MARKS.
See
INDIRECT
SPEECH/REPORTED
SPEECH.
queue
queued,
queuing
or
queueing
quiet
or
quite?
The

children
were
as
QUIET
as
mice,
(quiet
= two
syllables)
You
are
QUITE
right,
(quite
= one
syllable)
quotation
or
quote?
Use
these exemplar sentences
as a
guide:
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