✅ Customize refers to making or modifying something according to a person’s preferences or needs (I customized the features of my car).

✅ Personalize is the best word to use to refer to tailoring or designing something according to a person’s preferences (Personalize this mug with your name).

✅ Customize and personalize can be used interchangeably. However, customize generally suggests modifying fewer elements of a pre-existing design than personalize (She personalized every part of our trip to our wishes; He customized the workout to our activity level).

✅ Both verbs can also refer to changing qualities of a ready-made object as in, customizing the height of a desk or the intensity of a shower spray or personalizing the design or color of a phone case to match your tastes.

With the help of Grammar Coach, write about your favorite ways to personalize something.

✅ Logical describes something that agrees with or behaves according to logic (a logical argument).

✅ Reasonable describes something that suggests good judgment and reasoning (a reasonable choice for dinner). It can also describe something that’s realistic, fair, and not excessive.

✅ Logical and reasonable are pretty close. However, emotional and social context can be included in a reasonable decision making process, but less so in a logical decision making process (He’s the logical decision to be the leader, but I’m concerned about his health).

✅ Reasonable can suggest that you’re responding to people’s needs and demands in a way that logical doesn’t (She was reasonable in her requests of her employees).

Need practice for writing your résumé? Describe a reasonable decision you made, with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Experienced describes someone who has become knowledgeable in or about something because of long-term work or study in that field (an experienced diver).

✅ Accomplished describes someone who is very skilled in something, to the point of being an expert (an accomplished violinist).

✅ Experienced emphasizes the length of time someone has been gaining and applying their knowledge (She was an experienced leader).

✅ Accomplished implies having achieved a lot, perhaps even awards, in a given field (They are an accomplished climber).

Go beyond the adjective experienced, and write about something you’re accomplished in, with the help of Grammar Coach.