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Words that are often confused for another.
Commonly Confused Words
What is the shortest distance between two points?
a line
What do you call the point of view that uses the pronoun "I"?
first person
What does the formula H2O represent?
water
What are the colors of the American flag?
red, white, and blue
FANBOYS
,for ,and ,nor ,but ,or ,yet ,so
Marco Polo left home in 1271 and reached China 25 years later. What year was that?
1296
An educated guess about what will happen is called an?
inference
Your body is always making new cells? True or False
True
What professional sport is played by the Giants, Bears, and Vikings?
football
Punctuation mark found between two independent clauses.
semicolon
If you quadruple $40, how much money do you have?
$160
Which genre uses stage directions?
drama
Which animal group is warm blooded? fish, mammals, reptiles, or birds? Name 2.
mammals and birds
Is the art of Japanese paper folding called origami or feng shui?
origami
A person, place, thing, or idea
noun
How many sides are in a square?
Four
Which figurative language used "like" or "as"?
simile
What device is used to measure body heat?
thermometer
In baseball, what do we call the final championship games of the season?
World Series
The three types of verbs
Are square feet a measure of perimeter, circumference, or area?
area
Five
There are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. True or False
True
What kind of ship used to fly a flag called the Jolly Roger?
a pirate ship