English 100 Practice Final #2: Commonly Confused Words

Choose the correct word

1 Please __________________my apologies for running over your toe with my shopping cart. accept except 2 Riddle: What do people give frequently but take rarely?? Answer: advice advise 3 Penelope is so dramatic. She cries for the _____________. effect affect 4 The best friends kept the secret___________themselves. between among 5 At the Tupperware party, Sam sat __________ Gertrude. beside besides 6 Leo __________ fix your bike; he went to bike fixing school. can may 7 Lucy is so rich, she buys dusting _______ at Saks Fifth Avenue clothes cloths 8 You can call me anything, but don't cal me late for dessert desert 9 George __________the cooking; I do the eating. dose does 10 I missed ______________classes than Herbert, but he got a better grade. less fewer 11 I decided to work at Taco World instead of Taco Universe. The ______________ was just too big. former latter 12 Katafi is going to _______________me the steps to the new dance, the Macarena Mambo. learn teach 13 We did not want to play the Bullets because we were afraid that we would ___________. loose lose 14 Joe thought that his fishing trip would be peaceful, but it was really ________different after he caught a 200 pound Marlin. quiet quite 15 Even _____________I practiced for hours, I couldn't hit the target. though thought 16 I am going to bed early________daylight savings time causes me to wake up earlier than the settings on my internal clock. being that because 17 I ______________wait for the Mud Bog. can hardly can't hardly 18 I should ___________packed more than just my swimming suit when I went on vacation to Hawaii. have of 19 I will go to the Olympics __________of what anyone says. regardless irregardless