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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) 164 preparation 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) 165 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 166 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. 167 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) 168 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: 169 •II . POTATO potato (singular) potatoes (plural) See PLURALS (iv). practical or practicable? A PRACTICAL person . PRECEDE OR PROCEED?. proclaim proclamation (not -claim-) profession (not -ff-) professional 166 PROPHECY OR PROPHESY? professor profit profited, profiting See ADDING ENDINGS (iv). prognosis See . respect. (d) She's a politician I have a great deal of respect FOR. present (not -ant) 165 PRESENT PRESUME presume See ASSUME OR PRESUME?. priest See EI/IE SPELLING RULE. primitive (not