WRITING WELL

Considering Yet More Commonly Confused Compounds

Including compound nouns that when separated become verbs

Karen DeGroot Carter
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readOct 22, 2023

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There seem to be numerous compounds in the English language as well as terms that are commonly confused. I’ve already covered compound sentences, compound possession, and compound nouns (more than once!) as well as commonly confused terms

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