Common Grammar Errors

Choose all incorrect sentences.

• They're going to the store.

• There going to the store.

• Their going to the store.

Choose the correct sentence.

• Your eating my shorts!

• You're eating my shorts!

• Ur eating my shorts!

• U're eating my shorts x 10³⁴

Choose the correct sentence.

• I have to eggs.

• I have two eggs.

• I have too eggs.

Its is possessive (True or False)

• True

• False

Which contraction is INCORRECT?

• Doesn't

• You've

• We'ed

• I'll

True or False: It is necessary to capitalize titles of books, magazines, poems, songs, etc.

• False; it is never necessary.

• False; it is sometimes necessary.

• True; it is sometimes necessary.

• True; it is always necessary

“Is that _________ lovely house?”

• there

• they're

• their

“That alien is scary; do not go in ________ spaceship!”

• its

• it's

“I really enjoy reading, ________”

• to

• too

• two

Which is the correct usage of the word/words in bold when writing an academic essay?

• “I will not give in to his demands!”

• “I won’t give in to his demands!”