Common Usage Errors

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

• accept

• except

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

• good

• well

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

• its

• it's

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

• imply

• infer

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

• between

• among

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

• illusions

• allusions

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

• effected

• affected

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

• accepted

• excepted

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

• your

• you're

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

• all ready

• already