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have went / have ate / other wrong participle choices: Whenever you're not sure of a correct past participle, check the main word in the dictionary. Most dictionaries list in bold the past-tense and past-participle forms of irregular verbs. Most do not list these forms for regular verbs, but some do. So, under eat you'll see something like ate, eaten in bold letters. That tells you that eat is an irregular verb, that its past tense is ate (Liam ate a sandwich), and that its past participle is eaten (In the past, he has eaten up to four sandwiches). Regular verbs like walk add -ed to form both the past tense and the past participle: Today you walk. Yesterday you walked. In the past you have walked.
accept / except: You accept a gift. When you except something, you leave it out.
compliment / complement: A flattering remark is a compliment. Something that completes something else, the way the right wine completes a meal, complements it.
affect / effect: Affect is usually a verb: That doesn't affect me. Effect is usually a noun: What will the effect of his decision be? Two rare synonyms defy this guideline. The transitive verb effect means "bring about": The candidate promised to effect positive change. The noun affect is a psychology term for emotion or a facial or bodily expression of emotion: The patient's affect was flat.
phase / faze: A phase is a stage of development. Faze is a verb meaning to upset or shock. Unfazed means unaffected.
led / lead: Led is the past tense form of the verb to lead: He led the horse to water. There is also the metal called lead, which is pronounced exactly like led.
then / than: Then is for time. Than is for comparison.
Computer's for sale / Merry Christmas from the Thompson's / other apostrophe errors: Never use an apostrophe to form a plural. It's Computers for sale and Merry Christmas from the Thompsons. Be especially careful with proper names ending in s.
grammar: Does not have an e in it.