Commonly Misused Words
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Contraction for they are (They're trying to set a record for the largest pumpkin ever grown)
29They're
There
Their
They'll
- Q1
Contraction for they are (They're trying to set a record for the largest pumpkin ever grown)
They're
There
Their
They'll
15s - Q2
Their
Same as there
Same as there and they're
Possessive (They made a birthday cake for their alligator)
Contraction (shortening and combining two words)
15s - Q3
The opposite of "Here" indicates a place (Up there!)
They're
Their
There
They were
15s - Q4
An adverb meaning without doubt, clearly (They will definitely not be going back to the zoo after the monkey incident.)
Defiantly
Definitely
They are all the same
Differently
15s - Q5
Defiantly
Same as definitely
In a way that is not the same as another or as before
Adverb meaning in a manner that shows open resistance or bold disobedience.
(He defiantly refused to clean the ketchup off the wall after staging a murder scene in his mother's kitchen)
Adverb meaning without doubt (She will definitely be dressing up as a storm trooper for Halloween this year)
15s - Q6
a verb meaning to receive, to answer yes, or to hold as true (He would have to accept the consequences of filling his sister bathtub with tarantulas)
both are correct
affect
Accept
except
15s - Q7
a preposition (and sometimes conjunction) meaning apart from or excluding (He cleaned the ketchup off of all the walls except for one in the dining room.)
Effect
Accept
Accept or Except
Except
15s - Q8
affect
Both are correct
Noun meaning as a result (one scary side effect of the medication was turning into a werewolf during the full moon)
neither are correct
Verb meaning to influence (An alligator eating the pilot could greatly affect their travel plans)
15s - Q9
Noun meaning as a result (She did a study of the effect of the full moon on werewolves.)
effect
both are correct
affect
neither are correct
15s - Q10
Then
Adverb to show time (We're going to find and slay the vampire and then we will get ice cream.)
Emphasizes a place or person (He went up to the attic to see if there really was a ghost up there.)
all of the above
Conjunction for comparison (The vampire has live more than 400 years in New York City.)
15s - Q11
Conjunction for comparison (Her mother said that she is not allowed to have more than 5 cats at a time. )
Then
There
Then or than
Than
15s
