I’ve learnt that people often make mistakes when it come to the word grateful let’s talk about it.
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Is it the misunderstanding of the word, is it that it is used too casually, to be grateful is to feel thanks from the heart and the deed has made a difference for the better in someone's life or situation
They write it because it's in the way they pronounce it, but it's supposed to be greateful.
The only mistake is that we don't use it often enough. 😇
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When there's a spelling confusion it happens with students due to stress during exams they write greatful instead of grateful 😁 .
They write ''greatful'' instead of grateful but that is wrong.
Knowing the synonyms for grateful can help people not to confuse it with greatful. The most common one is thankful. The two names tend to have a similar meaning in both sentence or conversation. Other synonyms for grateful include: Indebted Obliged Appreciative
When people hear the word "grateful", they can make the assumption that it is somehow connected to the word "great" in some way or other and that "-ful" will somehow enhance the meaning of "great". Another word that is given the same treatment is "fast" with many students assuming that "-ly" should be added when trying to express a stronger meaning. Let us be clear: there are no such words as "Greatful" or "fastly". Such thinking is the result of poor teaching and poor explanation of vocabulary. Grate and great are homophonic (they sound the same but have completely different meanings) which means that the student could fall into what is called "The False Friends Trap".
people tend to mistake grateful with greatful which is gramattically wrong
Some mistake it for greatful which is spelt wrong.
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