Troublesome Verbs
Other Troublesome Words
Homonyms
More Homonyms & Troublesome Words
Grammar Rules
100
This is a verb that means "to go up", and it is intransitive.
What is "Rise"?
100
These two words, meaning "many", are often put together and written as one.
What is "A lot"?
100
This homonym means, "a basic truth or guiding policy", and has a slightly different spelling than its partner homonym.
What is "Principle"?
100
In this set of troublesome words, the apostrophe makes all the difference.
What is "were/we're"?
100
To make this part of speech plural, you most often add an 's' to the end of the word.
What is a noun?
200
This verb is transitive and means "to recline".
What is "Lie"?
200
One of the indefinite articles, this one always precedes words beginning with vowels.
What is "an"?
200
A solder might do this if he can't stand the hard work; This course usually follows all of the others, at the very end of a meal.
What are "desert and dessert"?
200
This is another word that means "a part or position that an individual plays".
What is "Role"?
200
Several conjugations of the verb "to be" are known as this type of verb.
What are Linking Verbs?
300
The Past & Past Participle conjugations of this verb are "sat" and "(have, has, had) sat".
What is "Sit"?
300
This word, a preposition, usually compares two or more items or people.
What is "Among"?
300
Elisha was numbered among these, found throughout the Old Testament.
What is a "Prophet"?
300
The homonym that means, "writing paper".
What is "Stationery"?
300
At all times, subjects and verbs must agree in this.
What is number?
400
This verb, meaning "to make something go up" is always transitive.
What is "Raise"?
400
This is a non-standard contraction for the words "am not", and should never be used in academic writing.
What is "ain't"?
400
This set of homonyms contains three similar words, two of which have no difference in spelling, but all three words have different meanings.
What are "Capitol/capitol/capital"?
400
This word is an adverb indicating place or position; its partner homonym means "to have on" or "to damage".
What are "wear/where"?
400
To say that "we don't have nothing in common" is incorrect because of this grammatical error.
What is a double negative?
500
Unlike the other sets of troublesome verbs, this set actually has a word in common. For one verb, it's the Past conjugation; for the other, it's the Present.
What is "Lie/Lay"?
500
This combination of troublesome words is tricky. One is a verb that means, "to receive". The other is a preposition that means, "not including".
What are "Accept/Except"?
500
A predator hunts for this, and it sometimes becomes this as well.
What is "prey"?
500
This threesome contains a preposition, an adverb, and a counting word.
What are "to/two/too"?
500
This part of speech modifies action words, descriptive words, and other words of its own kind.
What are adverbs?