Showing posts with label suit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suit. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

sweet, suite

Sweet or sweet means the taste of candy, sugar, or something similar--
He has a real sweet tooth. He always enjoys candy.
This coffee isn't sweet enough. Where's the sugar?
Sweet may describe the smell of some flowers or spices--
The sweet smell of cookies baking brought them all to the kitchen door.
Sweet may describe a person, a person's behavior, or life in general--
You remembered my birthday--how sweet.

Suite or suite ( rhymes with sweet ) means a set of something, such as rooms, musical compositions, or furniture--
What a nice hotel. They are staying in the penthouse suite.
We got a bargain on a living room suite.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The roses filled the honeymoon suite with a sweet fragrance."

Note--not to be confused with "suit" ( rhymes with boot )--meaning a set of clothing or the matching cards in a deck--
Is that a new suit? It looks great.
The cards have to match either number or suit to make a play.
Note # 2--a suit may also mean a civil law case--
He will never win his suit with a lawyer who is always late.
Suit may also mean a courtship, with marriage usually the object--
He was so persistent in his suit that she accepted.