{"id":667,"date":"2011-05-19T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-103-wacky-words-breathe-and-breath\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T16:04:26","slug":"day-103-wacky-words-breathe-and-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-103-wacky-words-breathe-and-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"day 103: wacky words—breathe and breath"},"content":{"rendered":"
Another Wacky Word pair that trips people up is that of breathe and breath. (The latest sign I saw of this had to do with helping people to “breath clean air”!)<\/p>\n
This pair is tricky, along with all of the ea pairs, because ea says short e and long e–all by itself. For example:<\/p>\n
1. Today I will read the book.
2. The leaf fell to the ground.
3. The thief is going to steal the diamond.<\/p>\n
The key to knowing whether to use breath or breathe is to consider the pairs that do have e at the end–it is there to show that, that word is the long e one (not the short e one).<\/p>\n
For example:<\/p>\n
1. Take a deep breath (breth–short e).
2. Breathe deeply (long e).<\/p>\n
3. He took great pleasure in it (short e–plezz).
4. They want to please him (long e).<\/p>\n
While there isn’t a fullproof trick (like their\/there and affect\/effect), it does help to keep in mind that if one of the set has an e at the end of it, it is there for a reason–in these cases, to make the first vowel say its long sound–breathe (long e) vs. breath (short e).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another Wacky Word pair that trips people up is that of breathe and breath. (The latest sign I saw of this had to do with helping people to “breath clean air”!) This pair is tricky, along with all of the ea pairs, because ea says short e and long e–all by itself. For example: 1. […]<\/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":[640,82,183],"tags":[133,163],"yoast_head":"\n