Commonly misused words

How does eating too many carbohydrates _____ your weight?

• effect

• affect

Place the papers on the desk.  Don't _____ them on the floor. 

• lie

• lay

• lain

Yesterday, I literally _____ down after running from Mrs. Lindsey's wrath. 

• lie

• laid

• lay

• lied

You need to ____ more attention in your history class, otherwise you'll fail the test.

• put

• pay

• set

The sun _____ an hour later now that daylight-saving time has begun.

• rises

• raises

The moon had _____ high in the sky. 

• raised

• rised

• risen

She has _____ them her pillow.

• lended

• lent

• borrowed

• borrowen

Gordon found a dollar that was _____ on the sidewalk.

• lying

• lieing

• laying

We were rushing to buy the tickets for that concerts but then we found out that there were a lot of free _____ available.

• sits

• seats

If they ______ one more game they're out of the tournament.

• lose

• loose