Accept and except:
Some words in the English language sound the same but have completely different meanings, the words "hear" and "here", are similar sounding, as well as "accept" and "except".
The word "hear," commonly refers to hearing noises, for example: "I hear a train going long its track", compared to the word "here" which normally means closeness, "I am here at the bus stop".
While the words accept and except have the same sound they too have different meanings:
"I accept the gifts with open arms", and except can be used with or as a substitute for the word but as: "I like this dinner except for the veggies".
There, their, and they're:
There, their and they're, are also very confusing as they sound completely the same, but they have their separate use cases:
You can use there as a locator verb "There is the rabbit that keeps eating my carrots",
their is a possessive objective that can be used as a form of ownership, "It's their toy, don't try and snatch it",
and they're is even more complicated, but it is a shortened form of they are: "They're not home right now so put the mail in the mailbox"
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