'Confusing Words' Hacks

Here are three pairs of words we sometimes interchanged when writing sentences. 

Your

 - denotes ownership or possession, always precedes/come before a noun.

e.g.

-  your car (you own the car)

-  your attaché case (you own the attaché case)

- your grandchild

- your company

Three Ways to Shorten Words or Phrases

Abbreviations

- are shortened words formed by deleting some of its letters with the replacement of a period.

- mostly used to address people’s occupation/political rank/educational attainment- usually starts with a capital letter WHEN preceding a proper noun.

- when occurring in a sentence without a proper name that comes after, it is just written in lower case.

e.g.

Dr. = doctor

Engr. =  engineer

Gov. = governor

Col. = colonel