I’m not happy with your service because your app doesn’t do what it’s suppose to do.As always, let’s look at some incorrect examples: So just remember it’s always supposed to, not suppose. Used in this way, you follow supposed with the word ‘to’. Cinderella was supposed to be home by midnight.You’re not supposed to forge someone’s signature!.I was supposed to go to the shops yesterday but I forgot.The more frequently seen usage of Supposed is used to mean ‘meant to’: You’d most likely say ‘assumed’ or ‘guessed’. We supposed the man she was with was her husband.At the time, I supposed she still loved me.But let’s look at a couple examples anyway: This is an interesting one because although supposed is the past tense of suppose, it’s not very often used in that way. Suppose she doesn’t show up to court! What then?.Suppose I hadn’t missed my train that morning.Suppose is sometimes used as a ‘what if’ type of scenario: I suppose I’ll answer the phone then / I guess I’ll answer the phone then. You can replace the word ‘suppose’ with ‘think’ or ‘guess’: Or what about when you’re on the train and you hurtle past another one? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the other train is moving or stationary isn’t it? Again, the A after station is not pronounced. Your driving instructor might ask you to make a turn or parking manoeuvre from a stationary position. Stationary, pronounced station-ry, means something is not moving, or still. While there’s a slight pronunciation difference between the two, the main difference is that one is spelt with an A and the other with an E and we’re going to use this to our advantage in a sec! These two are confused so, so often, and it’s obvious to see why. I guess you could pique someone’s interests by giving them a sneak peek of an upcoming movie. ![]() Honestly, I don’t think it’s widely used anymore, but you deserve to know it! To pique someone’s interests means to excite someone. ![]() Lastly, we have the expression to pique your interest. To learn more about confusing word pairs, read this blog post about other words that writers often confuse.And just to confuse us all even further, there’s also the popular EDM artist called Peking Duk. ![]() However, it’s most frequently confused with ‘peek’ and ‘peak’ when used in the first way. Pique also means a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one’s pride or to feel irritated or resentful. In an attempt to pique your curiosity about puppy adoption, I’ll show you this cute video. The article about global warming piqued my interest. Pique is most commonly used as a verb, meaning to stimulate interest of curiosity: Keep those sly mountaintops out of your writing and be sure you use ‘sneak peek’ correctly! When writing the phrase ‘sneak peek,’ people often mistakenly use the word ‘peak’ instead of ‘peek.’ It’s easy to understand why this happens, because the spelling of ‘peak’ is similar to ‘sneak,’ but ‘peek’ is the correct word to use. Peek means to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice to peep to be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place: The hiker’s goal was to reach the mountain’s peak on the third day of her journey. ![]() Peak means to reach a highest degree or maximum to rise or extend into a peak or point to form, or appear as, a peak:
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