Commonly Confused Words Worksheet

Vocabulary lesson 24: Commonly confused words · Set 495 · 40 questions

Word tip (Meaning first, then spelling): Decide what the sentence needs: an action (verb) or a thing (noun)? affect / advise are verbs; effect / advice are nouns. Use memory tricks: stationEry has e for envelopes; stationAry has a for “at rest”; dessert has a double s for “sweet stuff”. Read the finished sentence and check the meaning.

1. 1.Pick the right word: ___ your hand if you know the answer. (a) Raise (b) Rise
2. 2.Pick the right word: It is hard to ___ in a smoky room. (a) breathe (b) breath
3. 3.Pick the right word: Please be ___ in the library. (a) quite (b) quiet
4. 4.Pick the right word: Camels ___ well to life in the desert. (a) adopt (b) adapt
5. 5.Pick the right word: ___ do you live? (a) Where (b) Were
6. 6.Pick the right word: Please ___ to the next room. (a) proceed (b) precede
7. 7.Pick the right word: Press the ___ to stop the bicycle. (a) brake (b) break
8. 8.Pick the right word: The goats ___ around the hills all day. (a) wonder (b) wander
9. 9.Pick the right word: All hospital ___ must wear an ID card. (a) personnel (b) personal
10. 10.Pick the right word: In the ___, people wrote letters with ink pens. (a) past (b) passed
11. 11.Pick the right word: Can I ___ your eraser for a minute? (a) lend (b) borrow
12. 12.Pick the right word: We ___ playing when it started to rain. (a) were (b) where
13. 13.Pick the right word: I ___ what is inside the box. (a) wander (b) wonder
14. 14.Pick the right word: Please ___ this small gift. (a) accept (b) except
15. 15.Pick the right word: The guide ___ us through the forest yesterday. (a) lead (b) led
16. 16.Pick the right word: The ___ of the story is “always tell the truth”. (a) morale (b) moral
17. 17.Pick the right word: First we ate lunch, and ___ we played. (a) then (b) than
18. 18.Pick the right word: The sun will ___ at six tomorrow. (a) raise (b) rise
19. 19.Pick the right word: The priest placed flowers on the ___. (a) altar (b) alter
20. 20.Pick the right word: We must ___ a plan to save water. (a) device (b) devise
21. 21.Pick the right word: A good captain will ___ the team to victory. (a) led (b) lead
22. 22.Pick the right word: The ___ of our school spoke at the assembly. (a) principle (b) principal
23. 23.Pick the right word: The plants are ___ without water. (a) dyeing (b) dying
24. 24.Pick the right word: Riya joined a computer ___. (a) coarse (b) course
25. 25.Pick the right word: We buy milk and curd from the ___. (a) diary (b) dairy
26. 26.Pick the right word: I have ___ finished my homework. (a) all ready (b) already
27. 27.Pick the right word: The bus was ___ at the red light. (a) stationary (b) stationery
28. 28.Pick the right word: Take a deep ___ before you dive. (a) breath (b) breathe
29. 29.Pick the right word: Mum is ___ the old saree blue. (a) dying (b) dyeing
30. 30.Pick the right word: ___ the best singer in our class! (a) Your (b) You're
31. 31.Pick the right word: The medicine had a good ___ on her cold. (a) effect (b) affect
32. 32.Pick the right word: The children were ___ for the picnic. (a) already (b) all ready
33. 33.Pick the right word: The sky is ___ as the sun rises. (a) lightening (b) lightning
34. 34.Pick the right word: They are building a new school on this ___. (a) cite (b) site (c) sight
35. 35.Pick the right word: Always ___ the book you took a fact from. (a) site (b) sight (c) cite
36. 36.Pick the right word: A flash of ___ lit up the sky. (a) lightning (b) lightening
37. 37.Pick the right word: ___ maths, Riya also loves art. (a) Besides (b) Beside
38. 38.Pick the right word: The ___ of the snowy mountains was beautiful. (a) sight (b) cite (c) site
39. 39.Pick the right word: Too much screen time can ___ your eyes. (a) affect (b) effect
40. 40.Pick the right word: Put the letter in an ___. (a) envelope (b) envelop

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