{"id":100,"date":"2008-08-09T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:30:46","slug":"regardless-vs-irregardless-sneaked-vs-snuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/regardless-vs-irregardless-sneaked-vs-snuck\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Regardless<\/em> vs. <em>Irregardless<\/em>, <em>Sneaked<\/em> vs. <em>Snuck<\/em>, <em>Assure<\/em> vs. <em>Ensure<\/em> vs. <em>Insure<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Regardless<\/em> vs. <em>Irregardless<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some words in the English language are so overused that we don\u2019t notice that they are incorrect or don\u2019t even exist. A perfect example is <em>irregardless<\/em>. Many scholars maintain there is no such word as <em>irregardless<\/em> because <em>regardless <\/em>already means &#8220;without regard.&#8221; The <em>-ir <\/em>prefix is redundant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sneaked<\/em> vs. <em>Snuck<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both <em>sneaked<\/em> and <em>snuck<\/em> are commonly used as the past and perfect tenses for <em>sneak<\/em>. However, in formal writing, <em>sneaked<\/em> is still preferable to <em>snuck<\/em>. A writer can&#8217;t go wrong using <em>sneaked<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Assure<\/em> vs. <em>Ensure<\/em> vs. <em>Insure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These three words can be confusing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assure<\/em> = to promise or say with confidence<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> <em>Let me assure you that I will be at the meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ensure<\/em> = to make sure something will or won\u2019t happen<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> <em>To ensure my family\u2019s safety, I have installed an alarm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Insure<\/em> = to issue or purchase an insurance policy<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> <em>I will insure my home with an additional fire policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nChoose the correct word:<br \/>\n1. She sneaked\/snuck out of the house in the middle of the night.<br \/>\n2. I assure\/ensure\/insure you that I have been honest about the money I spent.<br \/>\n3. I will assure\/ensure\/insure my car as required by law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n1. She <strong>sneaked<\/strong> out of the house in the middle of the night. (Correct)<br \/>\n2. I <strong>assure<\/strong> you that I have been honest about the money I spent.<br \/>\n3. I will <strong>insure<\/strong> my car as required by law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless vs. Irregardless Some words in the English language are so overused that we don\u2019t notice that they are incorrect or don\u2019t even exist. A perfect example is irregardless. Many scholars maintain there is no such word as irregardless because regardless already means &#8220;without regard.&#8221; The -ir prefix is redundant. Sneaked vs. Snuck Both sneaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}