When to use insure or ensure in a sentence?

Ensure is to do or have what is necessary for success. Example: These blankets ensure that you’ll be warm enough. Insure is to cover with an insurance policy. Example: I will insure my home with additional fire and flood policies.

How do you use the word ensure?

Ensure means to make sure or guarantee something happens. Use the word “ensure” when you want to guarantee an outcome.

Do Americans use the word ensure?

There is considerable overlap between the meaning and use of insure and ensure. For the more general senses, ensure is the more usual word, but insure is also sometimes used, particularly in American English, for example: Bail is posted to insure that the defendant appears for trial.

Does ensure mean guarantee?

transitive verb. : to make sure, certain, or safe : guarantee.

What can I say instead of Ensure?

Synonyms & Antonyms of ensure

• assure,
• cinch,
• guarantee,
• guaranty,
• ice,
• insure,
• secure.

Does it have to follow ensure?

Re: Do you need a “that” after the word “ensure?” Yes, use “ensure that”.

Do you need that after Ensure?

What word can I use instead of Ensure?

Do you need a that after Ensure?

‘That’ is not essential, though it sometimes makes a sentence easier to read first time. He tried to ensure the success was reported, Without ‘that’, readers might start to read the sentence, and believe at first that ‘the success’ was the direct object of ‘ensure’; they would then have to change tack in mid-sentence.

Is ensure a legal term?

Ensure means to make sure, certain, or safe. Example of a Statute in California using the word ensure.

What’s the difference between ensure and guarantee?

As verbs the difference between guarantee and ensure is that guarantee is to assure that something will get done right while ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

When to use the word ensure or insure?

Ensure means to make sure or guarantee something happens. Use the word “ensure” when you want to guarantee an outcome. Insure means to take measures or precautions to guarantee it will protect something if something happens. Use the word “insure” when you want to guarantee an outcome by use of an official and specified protection.

What’s the difference between assure and insure in insurance?

To ensure something is to make sure it happens—to guarantee it. To insure something or someone is to cover it with an insurance policy.

Which is better to make certain or insure?

The second definition of “to make certain” is better to spell “ensure” rather than “insure.” Yes, but as the NRA considers membership as insurance to protect one’s gun ownership, “insure” is the correct term.

Do you use insure or assure when writing a letter?

Do you find yourself jolted awake in the middle of the night, seized with the paralyzing dread that you may have used either ensure, insure, or assure when one of the others was called for, when writing a letter to a very important person? We hope not, as it isn’t really worth losing sleep over (but good on you for still writing letters).