80 / PART ONE: THE BASICS He is taller than me. She was angrier than him. If the verb was added instead of being ‘understood’, it would sound quite wrong: He was taller than me am. She was angrier than him was. Revising spelling ◆ Learn the most commonly misspelled words. Revise the list on pages 69–70. ◆ Learn the correct spelling of homophones: hear – here their – there – they’re sea – see too – two – to your – you’re The words ‘practise’ and ‘practice’ are often confused and so are ‘advise’ and ‘advice’. ‘Practise’ and ‘advise’ are the verbs and ‘practice‘ and ‘advice’ are the nouns : You must practise the piano if you are to improve. There is a cricket practice in the nets today. I advise you to behave yourself. She always refused to take advice.