Common Usage Errors

All of the tracks on the new CD are excellent ________ the last one.

• accept

• except

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

While Bob felt ______ enough to go to school on Monday, he stayed home one more day.

• good

• well

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

CCSS.L.2.1E

My dog, Cookie, probably knows _____ way home, but I just hope that it looks out for traffic.

• its

• it's

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

I can ___________ from your tone of voice that you are angry.

• imply

• infer

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.K.1B

The fruit crop will be shared equally __________ all five of the families in the farm cooperative.

• between

• among

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

I admire the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and many of my own poems contain ____________ to Poe's verse.

• illusions

• allusions

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Martha was certainly _________ by the death of her pet hamster, but she did not cry.

• effected

• affected

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

Professor Hawking has ___________ a position as Visiting Professor at our university.

• accepted

• excepted

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.K.1B

____________ opinion matters to me, but I must still make up my own mind.

• your

• you're

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

I'd _________ swum thirty laps when the coach said, "Ten more!"

• all ready

• already

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

CCSS.L.2.1E