English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
Common Errors
Everyone knows she’s a ~sadist~ because she never talks to anyone (nonstandard).
Everyone knows she’s *morose* because she never talks to anyone (standard). Someone who is morose is miserable, bad-tempered, and not willing to talk very much to other people but a sadist is someone who enjoys inflicting pain on others, sometimes in a sexual sense:
Only his wife knows he’s a sadist. ✔️
He talks too much and I can’t marry a ~lousy~ person (nonstandard).
He talks too much and I can’t marry a *noisy* person (standard).
A noisy person or thing makes a lot of loud or unpleasant noise but if you describe something as lousy, you mean that it is of very bad quality or that you do not like it:
I had a lousy (bad) weekend. ✔️
GAB
