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How to spell grant

What it means: To give as judged due.

In a sentence: The teacher will grant the class extra playtime. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as grent or grantt.

Same family: Ulysses S. Grant, General Grant, President Grant, Civil War, Union army. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Grant is the last name of Ulysses S. Grant, who was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio in 1822. A mistake on his application to West Point changed his name officially to Ulysses S. Grant, and he kept it for the rest of his life.

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