{"id":482,"date":"2013-02-20T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wordy-wednesday-conscience-vs-conscious\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:00","slug":"wordy-wednesday-conscience-vs-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wordy-wednesday-conscience-vs-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordy Wednesday: Conscience vs Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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.<\/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>

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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>

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