Master confusing words with ease
Loss vs. Lost
Loss
/lɒs/Examples:
Don't let losses eat into your compounding.Or, if he did it meant the loss of Hortense.I'm afraid literature's loss will be Henry Bellamy's gain."
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Lost
/lɒst/Examples:
"If I appear frightened, I am lost," thought he.The inspector remained lost in thought for a minute or two.There were no lost days, no endless bouts of drinking.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Loss is a noun and refers to the act or instance of losing something.
- Lost is generally used as a past tense verb or adjective, indicating something that was misplaced or no longer possessed.
- Remember: loss rhymes with boss, and like a boss, it dominates the noun position.
- Lost talks about something being misplaced, like when you tossed it away.
- If youre talking about feeling or the meaning of the situation, its often loss, whereas lost is more about the state or action.
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