Words Commonly Confused_ Exercise
1.
Pam walked forward to _________the trophy. (accept,except)
2.
Diana was ________________ to eating worms. (adverse, averse)
3.
Lise ate _______________ of potato chips at the party. (a lot, a lot, allot)
4.
Rudy’s answers to our test were almost ____________ (all right, alright)
5.
The kiss had a surprising ________ on Melanie’s feelings. (affect, effect)
6.
Charles asked the blonde in his economic’s class if she would go out with him
____________ (anytime, any time)
7.
Barry, Tim and Gaston had perfect scores on their test as long as you added them
___________________ (altogether, all together)
8.
Carolina was _________about her lost puppy. (eager, anxious)
9.
The train’s rough ________up the mountain gave Cheryl second thoughts about
her trip. (ascent, assent)
10.
Georgia lived in the ______ of Newfoundland for four years. (capital, capitol)
11.
Debby’s shoes ______________her dress. (compliment, complement)
12.
Richard’s car is ______________ (composed, comprised) of many mechanical
parts.
13.
Tim was still ______after the party, but his friends definitely did not want him to
drive. (conscious, conscience)
14.
Louise ________________me that Bill Cosby was a great communicator.
(convinced, persuaded)
15.
Rudy ______________his friend not to take that course. (counseled, councilled)
16.
Monique is ____________dating ten boys but her fiance thinks that she should
stop _______________ (presently, currently)
17.
Cheryl ______________ the paper Bill was reading when she cried. (devastated,
decimated)
18.
Pat looks pretty ___________today. (descent, decent, dissent)
19.
Lisa was a bit nervous when the plane went into rapid ____________. (decent,
descent, dissent).
20.
Louise was faced with the ________________of getting a job, borrowing from
her family, or robbing a bank. (problem, dilemma)
21.
Mercedez is ______________ in the class because it is boring to her.
(uninterested, disinterested)
22.
People are _________________ of many things – wealth is only one of them.
(desirous, desirable)
23.
He was an _____________master of Tae Kwon Do; therefore, we were a little in
awe of him. (eminant, imminent)
24.
The supervisor kept making ___________demands on his employees. (farther,
further)
25.
The students ________the law by sitting on the steps of the police station
smoking marijuana. (flaunted, flouted)
26.
My old washing machine finally ______________this week. (foundered,
flounded)
27.
The invitation asked us to dress ___________ . (formerly, formally)
28.
His ______________ beard revealed his age. (grizzly, grisly)
29.
CFBNB held a trade show last weekend in one of their large
__________________ (hangers, hangars)
30.
They ___________________ him for murder. (hanged, hunt)
31.
___________the weather will be warmer tomorrow. (I hope, hopefully)
32.
Are you _____________ that I’m not a serious student? (inferring, implying)
33.
Is the test clear enough? Can you read _______ pages? (it’s, its)
34.
Given the choice between wealth and health, most people would choose the
_____________ (later, latter).
35.
Sometimes when you are very nervous you feel slightly ______________
(nauseated, nauseous)
36.
Brenda never told her husband the truth about her _____________ (past, passed)
37.
I walk ____________ our classroom door sometimes. (past, passed).
38.
Black cats are sometimes thought to ___________something evil. (purport,
pretend, portend)
39.
Some students are in a big hurry to ________with their studies; others are more
relaxed. (proceed, precede).
40.
His _____________ reason for getting a degree was to get a good job. (principal,
principle)
41.
People don’t seem to have any ____________ anymore. (prinicpals, principles)
42.
The dog ___________himself in front of his master. (prostated, prostrated)
43.
you will learn to _______ your sources when you write research papers. (site, cite,
sight)
44.
I felt ill _____I didn’t do my homework last night. (so, so that)
45.
People don’t buy a lot of _____________these days because they don’t write as
much as they did in the past.
46.
There was a ___________of red on my daughter’s lips; I knew she had been
playing with my makeup. (tinge, twinge)
47.
_____________sitting in a bad place if they really want to see the play. (Their,
They’re, There)
48.
Love can sometimes be ____________ (tortuous, torturous)
49.
They climbed up a narrow ____________path. (tortuous, torturous)