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The Street City Church

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PO Box 6218, Marion Square,
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Common problems

its (possessive pronoun)      The department cut its budget.

it’s (contraction/abbreviation for “it is”)     It’s going to be a busy semester.

presently     actually means in the future, soon, or after a short time, as in “He will arrive presently.” It means soon. It should not be used to mean now. (Use currently if you mean now.)

entitle     actually means to give or to render, as in “The claim entitles Native Canadians to fish on the land.” This word should not be used in reference to a book, unless one is speaking of the author’s act of giving the book a name, as in “He decided to entitle his book, A Life in Progress.” But the book is titled or called A Life in Progress.

in regard to     not ‘in regards to’

irregardless     This is not a word. Please don’t use it. The word is regardless.