Usage Errors

Links verified on 8/12/09

1. Affect and Effect - explanation and five sample questions, grade available
2. Can or May - explanation and five sample questions, grade available
3. Commonly Confused Words Quiz - use the drop down menus to select a word
4. Confusing Verbs - Lay / Lie - Read the sentence, and then choose the answer, and get your score instantly!
5. Confusing Words I - instruction followed by a review quiz of ten questions [answers are below the ten questions] [accept/except, ad/add, allowed/aloud, choose/chose]
6. Confusing Words II - instruction followed by a review quiz of ten questions [answers are below the ten questions] [advise/advice, a lot/allot, beside/besides, quiet/quite, passed/past]
7. Double Negatives - a quiz
8. Double Negatives Quiz - three levels available from the BBC
9. Its/It's and There/Their/They're - Select one answer from the choices provided after each sentence. The word you choose should fit the blank in the sentence.
10. Lay or Lie - explanation and five sample questions, grade available
11. Leave and Let - explanation and five sample questions, grade available
12. Problem verbs review - sit/set/lie/lay/rise/raise - Practice with these games to get a clear meaning of each of these troublesome verbs.
13. Sit or Set Quiz - Complete the sentences using the proper form of "sit" or "set."
14. There there - Click on the buttons to select the correct answer
15. They're/their/there - Click on the buttons to select the correct answer (a different quiz)
16. To Lie / To Lay and To Sit / To Set - Select one answer from the choices provided after each sentence. The word you choose should fit the blank in the sentence.
17. To, too and two - type your answers using commas to separate answers
18. To/Two/Too - Learn the difference between the homophones to, two, and too using this Quia quiz [5 questions per page]
19. To/Two/Too - Quia quiz; choose the correct homonym
20. To/Two/Too - (2) Learn the difference between the homophones to, two, and too. (a different Quia quiz) [1 question per page]
21. Troublesome words - 14 interactive exercises
22. Words Commonly Confused - links to eighty different activities