Choose/chose & do/due & accept/except by Robert Stewart

To Choose is to "pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives." When writing/typing/texting fast I often confuse this with "chose." Chose is the past tense of choose and in fact at one point in time it was correct to use. Chose sounds funny and incorrect when you use it. Simply put chose is the past tense of choose.
I also use the incorrect form of do/due sometimes strictly because it is a word you say a lot, but don't necessarily use. A teacher may say the due date for your homework is Friday and you must do it before class, but these are words that you don't type very much. Due's definition is "expected at or planned for at a certain time." While "do" is to perform. Don't mess these up like I do.
The last mistake I will bring up accept/except simple because the Utah slang we have makes these words pronounced exactly the same. I accept the position except no pickles on my sandwiches. To accept something is to "receive" something while except is "other than." This is like than/then something so simple, yet we mess it up easily. Just remember to insert "receive" or "other than" into the sentence and it will fix all of the problems in this world or just this problem.

This weeks grammar error is the uncommon our/are these words are so far from the same meaning it is hard to mix them up. A couple of my friends managed to mix it up when talking about their favorite football teams on a sunday.