Commonly Confused Words
Which is the correct answer:
I do not want to (lose/loose) this game.
What is lose?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct:
Lets eat Grandma.
What is
Let's eat, Grandma.
Which type of sentence error is written as if it were a complete idea, but it lacks a subject or verb?
What is a fragment?
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
Florida is known for (its, it’s) beautiful beaches.
What is its?
The correct form of the following sentence:
She (is/are) happy about getting a good grade.
What is IS?
Which is the correct answer?
Give the dog (it's/its) ball back before he bites you.
What is its?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct:
I wanted to go to the doctor I had a cold
What is I wanted to go to the doctor. I had a cold.
The following statement is an example of which sentence error?
Soccer, the number one sport in the world.
What is a fragment?
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
(Your, You’re) one of the winners of the essay contest.
What is you're?
The correct form of the following sentence:
Either restaurant (is/are) a good choice.
What is IS?
Which is the correct answer?
Those people need to wash (their/there/they're) filthy truck!
What is their?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct:
My mother said, "Please John, don't eat the daisies".
What is My mother said, "Please, John, don't eat the daisies."
The following statement is an example of which type of sentence error?
The tribal community lives off of the land they gather and share food as a group.
What is a run-on?
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
My family and I went (two, to, too) the mall.
What is to?
The correct form of the following sentence:
We (rent/rents) two movies every week.
What is rent?
Which is the correct answer?
Would you like to go to the mall (to, too, two)?
What is too?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct:
When I was young, the Oscar Mayer company had a song that said, "Oh! I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener!"
What is correct?
Name the type of sentence error in the following sentence:
The roof is made of palm leaves, the walls are made of tree bark.
What is a comma splice/run-on?
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
All of the campers returned to (there, they’re, their) cabins.
What is their?
The correct form of the following sentence:
Twenty candies (were/was) in the bag, now only one (is/are) left.
What is were?
What is IS?
Which is the correct answer?
(Whose/Who's) seen my black ink pen?
What is who's?
Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct:
When are you Daisy and Sam going to Chicago.
What is When are you, Daisy, and Sam going to Chicago?
What are two of the three ways to correct a run-on sentence?
Add a period and capitalize the next word OR Add a semicolon without capitalizing the next word OR Add a comma and one of the FANBOYS
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
Everyone smiled for the photographer (accept, except) Jodie.
What is except?
The correct form of the following sentence:
Each student in our class (come/comes) from California, but my brother and sister (come/comes) from North Carolina.
What is COMES, COME?