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  • These words sound similar but have different spellings and different meanings.

List 1
Lesson Quiz
  • accept/ except
  • access/ excess
  • adapt/ adopt
  • addition/ edition
  • advice/ advise
  • affect/ effect
  • are/ our/ hour
  • continual/ continuous
 List 2
Lesson Quiz
  • device/ devise
  • disinterested/ uninterested
  • elicit/ illicit
  • ever/ every
  • farther/ further
  • formally/ formerly
  • half/ have
  • irregardless/ regardless
 List 3
Lesson Quiz
  • loose/ lose/ loss
  • moral/ morale
  • personal/ personnel
  • precede/ proceed
  • quiet/ quite
  • respectfully/ respectively
  • sense/ since
  • than/ then

  • These words are grammatically similar but used differently.

List 1
Lesson Quiz
  • a/ an
  • about/ around
  • among/ between
  • as/ like
  • bad/ badly
  • beside/ besides
 List 2
Lesson Quiz
  • best/ better
  • bring/ take
  • brought/ brung
  • can/ may (could/ might)
  • choose/ chose
  • doesn't/ don't
 List 3
Lesson Quiz
  • fewer/ less
  • good/ well
  • got/ have
  • in/ into
  • its/ it's
  • lay/ lie
List 4
Lesson Quiz
  • learn/ teach
  • leave/ let
  • least/ less
  • many/ much
  • me/ myself
  • more/ most
 List 5
Lesson Quiz
  • raise/ rise
  • real/ really
  • saw/ seen
  • set/ sit
  • slow/ slowly
  • sure/ surely
 List 6
Lesson Quiz
  • these/ those
  • till/ until
  • use/ used
  • who/ whom
  • who's/ whose
  • worse/ worst
 



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