Be sure to consult a dictionary as some of the words below have other meanings not described here.

       1. meat, meet: Meat is a noun meaning “the eatable flesh of mammals”; “an edible, fleshy, inner portion”. Meet is a verb that means “to come upon”; “to be present at the arrival of or to encounter”.     
   
                    Johnson avoided meeting with the professor for fear of being called a slouch.

                    Most, if not all, vegetarians avoid meat in their diets.     

      2. metal, meddle, medal, mettle: Metal is a noun meaning “any category of elements that are usually lustrous, ductile and malleable”. Meddle is an intransitive verb which means “to interfere in the affairs of other people”; “to intrude”. Medal is a noun meaning “a flat piece of metal often given as an award, or used as an object of admiration or memorial”. Mettle is a noun meaning “inherent quality of character”; “courage and endurance”.

                    Laziness is a habit of those with little mettle.                                        
   
                    That particular metal is bronze, and not copper.     

                    You deserve a medal for all your meddling activities.
 
      3. miner, minor: Miner is a noun meaning “one whose business it is to extract mineral resources from the earth”. Minor is an adjective meaning “lesser in importance, or rank”; “not yet a legal adult”.

                    Is it fair to prosecute minors as adults when it comes to cases of homicide?

                    Not having their demands met, the miners finally decided to go on a strike against their bosses.


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     In the first part of this essay we looked at personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, and intensive pronouns. In this part we will consider relative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns.

     A relative pronoun relates one part of the sentence to a word in another part of a sentence. They are called relative pronouns because they usually introduce dependent clauses1 by relating further information to the rest of the sentence. As such, each relative pronoun in a sentence refers back to an antecedent (a noun that precedes the pronoun). Through the use of a dependent clause, a relative pronoun describes a noun in the independent clause2; hence, a pronoun acts as the subject or the object of a dependent clause. Relative pronouns include who, whom, whose, which, that, whomever, whichever, and whatever. Do note that a dependent clause that begins with a relative pronoun is also known as a Relative Clause.

          There goes the driver who won the race on his way to the West Indies.
          (In this sentence the relative pronoun who refers back to the driver. Who is the subject of the verb won, and the relative clause who won the race. The independent clause in this sentence is There goes the driver on his way to the West Indies.)

     Who and whoever are used (formally) as the subjects of a dependent or relative clause, while whom and whomever are used as the objects of a relative clause. Who, whoever, whom, and whomever are used for persons. Who is used when a particular person is spoken about. Whose denotes possession.

1A dependent clause, like an independent clause, also has a subject and a predicate. However, it is always introduced by a relative pronoun or a subordinating conjunction.

2 An independent clause is a combination of words including a subject and a verb; a dependent clause can stand alone as a sentence.

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Ben Okri discusses his work Starbook, and his approach to writing. Quite interesting and insightful.
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