{"id":11015,"date":"2012-04-18T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=11015"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:26:00","slug":"frequently-confused-words-on-the-gmat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/frequently-confused-words-on-the-gmat\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Confused Words on the GMAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Knewton-175x50_full-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9362\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Knewton \" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Knewton-175x50_full-color.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Jen Rugani<\/p>\n<p>Certain words are very commonly confused for each other; this is by design. Here\u2019s a core content piece you\u2019d find in our course.<\/p>\n<p>The preposition\u00a0<em>among\u00a0<\/em>takes an object made up of more than two items, while the\u00a0preposition\u00a0<em>between<\/em>\u00a0takes an object make up of exactly two items.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We divided our winnings\u00a0<em>among<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>three\u00a0<\/em>of us.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot choose\u00a0<em>between\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0<em>cake\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>pie<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>As<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>like<\/em>\u00a0can both be used to suggest similarity between two words or word groups.\u00a0 However, certain situations require the use of\u00a0<em>like,\u00a0<\/em>and others require the use of\u00a0<em>as.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Like\u00a0<\/em>draws a comparison between two nouns and functions as a preposition meaning \u201csimilar to.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Joe felt\u00a0<em>like<\/em>\u00a0a fool when he answered the question incorrectly.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing\u00a0<em>like<\/em>\u00a0biking on a warm autumn day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>As\u00a0<\/em>indicates a similarity between clauses, two phrases containing both a subject and a verb.\u00a0<em>As\u00a0<\/em>also introduces an adjective that is used in a comparison or a noun that indicates status.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The cod was marinated in white wine,\u00a0<em>as<\/em>\u00a0a proper seafood dish should be.<\/li>\n<li>The teacher is very lenient, but the principal will not be\u00a0<em>as\u00a0<\/em>kind.<\/li>\n<li>I work\u00a0<em>as<\/em>\u00a0a librarian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The adjective\u00a0<em>fewer<\/em>\u00a0properly modifies nouns that express quantities that\u00a0<em>can be counted<\/em>;\u00a0<em>less<\/em>modifies nouns that express quantities that\u00a0<em>cannot be counted<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Fewer<\/em>\u00a0people are living in the city.<\/li>\n<li>Please put\u00a0<em>less<\/em>\u00a0sugar in my tea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Effect<\/em>\u00a0is most commonly used as a noun meaning \u201cresult,\u201d but may also function as a verb meaning \u201cbring about.\u201d\u00a0<em>Affect<\/em>\u00a0is most commonly used as a verb meaning \u201cchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The weather\u00a0<em>affected<\/em>\u00a0the outcome of the football game.<\/li>\n<li>The failure of the major bank had a major\u00a0<em>effect<\/em>\u00a0on the stock market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are several other pairs and sets of words that are commonly confused. The following list is not exhaustive, but it is a good starting point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another, the other<\/li>\n<li>Accept, except<\/li>\n<li>Adapt, adopt<\/li>\n<li>Allusion, illusion, delusion<\/li>\n<li>Assure, ensure, insure<\/li>\n<li>Beside, besides<\/li>\n<li>Each other, one another<\/li>\n<li>Eminent, imminent<\/li>\n<li>Had, would have<\/li>\n<li>If, whether<\/li>\n<li>Imply, infer<\/li>\n<li>Ingenious, ingenuous<\/li>\n<li>More, greater<\/li>\n<li>Much, many<\/li>\n<li>Since, after<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jen Rugani Certain words are very commonly confused for each other; this is by design. Here\u2019s a core content piece you\u2019d find in our course. The preposition\u00a0among\u00a0takes an object&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,243,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-blog","category-sentence-correction-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}