So this is the sheet our (by our, I'm referring to my classmates) English teacher printed for us. We've had two quizzes on them so far; both of them were from 2nd quarter / 1st semester. Which words do you guys confuse a lot or see people confuse a lot? accept, except brake, break desert, dessert its, it's presence, presents vain, vane, vein advice, advise breathe, breath, breadth device, devise knew, new, know, no principal, principle affect, effect by, bye, buy faint, feint later, latter precede, proceed vociferous, voracious allot, a lot can, may farther, further lead, led quiet, quit, quite all ready, already canvas, canvass lay, lie rain, reign, rein waist, waste capital, capitol fewer, less leave, let raise, rise weak, week all together, altogether cite, site, sight formerly, formally loose, lose sea, see allusion, illusion clothes, cloths forth, fourth notable, noticeable sit, set wear, were, where altar, alter coarse, course good, well object, subject stationary, stationery weather, whether, rather among, between compare, contrast hear, here passed, past statue, stature, statute whose, who's are, hour, our compare to, compare with hole, whole your, you're award, reward complement, compliment imply, infer peace, piece than, then compare to, compare with consul, council, counsel incidence, incidents plain, plane their, there, they're bad, badly decent, descent, dissent incite, insight pore, pour threw, through beside, besides delusion, illusion, allusion instance, instants precedence, precedent to, too, two
Got 100% on the first row, then I got bored and quit. And how old are you? Just wondering because my school's regular English class was doing something similar to this not too long ago, and it just seems a little odd.
I had something like this last year. I was shocked when most people got crap grades on them. My biggest issues are with lie/lay and then/than.
I think 12, 18 and 21 mainly. The others occasionally without noticing. Although lately I've been making very simple errors like there/their and other simple things that I know perfectly well what they should be but I just type the wrong thing. However I am quite good at noticing them when I read back through.
quiet, quit, quite I don't feel these three have a place in here. They're spelled differently but are pronounced very differently.
All of those I understand, although I do mess some of them up quite a bit if I'm just not thinking about it when I type.
