IN A SENTENCE:

<i>Upvoting an article in Steemit is a form of COMPLIMENT to the author. However, a more appreciated gesture is to COMPLEMENT the upvote with a few words or more in the comments area.</i>

<blockquote>DISCLAIMER: I am not an English Native Speaker nor an expert in English language. What I write here are all from experience and research. If you feel I am out of line or say the wrong things, please alert me in the comments. To this effect, I am not immuned to these confusing words myself and this series is as much as an education for me as to those who read these blog posts.</blockquote>

<h2>COMPLIMENT VS. COMPLEMENT</h2>
![COMPLIMENT-VS-COMPLEMENT.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRpdNFfL18Ap6edenZB6LcKj1xcYCcLyZ8dB3ASCiW8pX/COMPLIMENT-VS-COMPLEMENT.png)

<h3>To COMPLIMENT,</h3>
 means to appreciate or praise someone of something they have done. Some form of this gesture may be a “complimentary ticket” to a concert or a movie.

Example #1: I have received COMPLIMENTS from colleagues for providing them the reports on time.
Example #2: We give COMPLIMENT to our students to let them feel they have done good work in class.

<h3>To COMPLEMENT,</h3> means to give or provide a better or enhanced value to something when two or more things are brought together.

Example #1: Writing good articles are better COMPLEMENTed with images to make a point.
Example #2: Steem Power COMPLEMENTs STEEM in terms of curation rewards and reputation of the author.

<h3>FURTHER STUDY</h3>
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/04/compliment-or-complement/
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/compliment-versus-complement
http://grammarist.com/usage/complement-compliment/
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/compliment-vs-complement/

<h2>I hope we learned something new today. I surely did! See you in the next confusing words! If you like this series, please follow @cjclaro and upvote and resteem ;-)</h2>