<\/a><\/div>\nI try to use mnemonics, tricks, songs, and jingles to teach parts of speech, homophones, and any other grammar and usage tips that I can. Students (of all ages, including adults!) often remember usage better when a trick or tip is applied.<\/span> <\/span>One of my students’ favorite tricks is for the confusing word pair (sometimes considered homophones, though they do have slightly different pronunciations) conscience\/conscious:<\/span> <\/span>The student’s con<\/b>science<\/u> bothered him because he tried to con<\/b> the science<\/u> teacher. <\/span><\/i><\/span> <\/span><\/i><\/span>He wasn’t conscious<\/b> enough to enjoy the delicious<\/b> treat. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i><\/span>In today’s assignment, my students had to write sentences using conscience <\/i>and conscious <\/i>(one sentence each). My amazingly clever students had fun with this! Three of them used both words in one sentence and <\/i>included the “trick” in that sentence too!<\/span><\/p>\n 1. I con<\/b>ned the science<\/u> teacher while I was conscious, and my con<\/b>science<\/u> bothered me.<\/span> <\/span>2. He wasn’t conscious of the fact that he con<\/b>ned the science<\/u> teacher; once he realized he had, his con<\/b>science<\/u> bothered him.<\/span> <\/span>3. He had a guilty con<\/b>science<\/u> after he consciously con<\/b>ned the science<\/u> teacher. <\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I try to use mnemonics, tricks, songs, and jingles to teach parts of speech, homophones, and any other grammar and usage tips that I can. Students (of all ages, including adults!) often remember usage better when a trick or tip is applied.One of my students’ favorite tricks is for the confusing word pair (sometimes considered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,628,640,82,632,183],"tags":[133,216,180,163],"yoast_head":"\n
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