Common errors in English

allowed or aloud?

Are we ALLOWED (= permitted) to smoke here?

Can you speak ALOUD (= out loud).

all ready or already?

We are ALL (= everyone) READY.

It is ALL (= everything) READY.

The patient was ALREADY dead (= by then ആ സമയം കൊണ്ട്‌).

all  so or also?

You are ALL (= everyone) SO kind.

You are ALSO (= in addition) generous.

all ways or always?

These three routes are ALL (= each of them) WAYS into town.

She ALWAYS (= at all times) tells the truth.

a lot Write as two words, not as one. Bear in mind that this construction വാക്യരചന is slang നാടൻ സംസാര ശൈലി and not to be used in a formal context പശ്ചാത്തലം.

alternate or alternative?

We visit our grandparents on ALTERNATE Saturdays. (= every other

Saturday)

An ALTERNATIVE plan would be to go by boat. (= another possibility)