Commonly Confused Words
Please (accept or except) my apology.
accept
This plus an "s" makes a noun possessive.
apostrophe
What is the indefinite pronoun in the following sentence: Anyone can learn to cook.
Anyone
What is the past participle of to do?
done
The pizza tasted (good well).
good
I would rather eat bacon (than then) ham.
than
Where does the comma go in the following:
July 4 1776
after the 4
The word a pronoun replaces is called this.
antecedent
What is the past tense of to go?
went
I did (good well) on the test.
well
The side (affects or effects) are very serious.
effects
Contractions are formed by putting this punctuation mark in the place of the missing letters.
apostrophe
Me is this type of pronoun.
object
What is the past tense of to lie (as in to lie down)?
lay
I want to go to that concert so (bad badly).
badly
I did (good or well) on the test.
well
This punctuation mark precedes a list.
colon
What is the reflexive pronoun in the following sentence: I baked the bread myself.
myself
What is the past participle of to come?
come
Yesterday was (real really) rainy.
really
I want (fewer or less) errors on my next exam.
fewer
Two independent clauses in one sentence can be joined by this punctuation mark.
semicolon
Pronouns must agree in these three things.
Case, Number, Gender
lain
The driver's test went very (bad badly).
badly