Thanks to insure and ensure being so similar in the way they’re pronounced, they’re often confused. They do share similar word origins, and a few grammar pontiffs say they’re interchangeable. Such an opinion is in the minority, however.

Ensure means to guarantee a situation. For example: By bringing an umbrella, Jane ensured they would not get wet during their walk.

Insure means to limit one’s financial liability. For example: Sophia decided that despite the expense and her limited funds, she needed to insure her car.

Hopefully this entry will ensure you now know how to use insure so that you can garner an income from writing.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.