If you’re anything like me, grammar can be a head ache. Who ever thought that rules to speech, writing and reading would be a good idea?! While it may seem like the English language itself is a headache, what I can agree with all of my teachers throughout the years is the importance of understanding homonyms. Homonyms are words that sound the same but have a different meaning like “dessert” “desert” and “desert”. In this case; dessert is something you get after dinner, a desert is a desolate area, and desert is to abandon something. An easy way to remember this is, “I deserted, my dessert in the middle of the desert.” This is something that shouldn’t be ignored in any type of writing. Not only is it annoying, it makes things confusing. Another