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Saturday, 16 April 2011

Stuart’s Daily Word Spot: A while or Awhile

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A while: noun phrase – ‘The bathing beauties in their bikinis had to wait for a while until they heard the results of the contest from the judges.’

Awhile: adverb – ‘After the celebrations, the politicians who’d lost the election remained awhile, hoping the press pack would have dispersed before they emerged.’

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2 comments:

Abigail-Madison Chase said...

another great word

stuartaken.net said...

Glad you liked this one. I thought I might occasionally insert some of the more easily confused word pairs here from time to time. Good idea?