WorksheetsEnglish Common Grammar Mistakes Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
What ............... do talented students have upon skilled teachers?
Affect
Effect
Do doting mothers have a bad .......... on their children?
Affect
Effect
Can government action ........... the course of a business recession?
Effect
Affect
All during the war, the O.P.A. tried to ........... a stabilization of the price structure.
Effect
Affect
Thyroid extract .......... the body very quickly.
Affects
Effects
When sound .............. are needed, they can often be dubbed into any motion picture.
Effects
Affects
Charlie Jerome is the short order cook of Colonial Diner, one of the ............. eating places in New Rochelle.
Principal
Principle
Charlie is a man of .............; he never serves a dish that is not perfect in taste.
Principal
Principle
The People's Savings Bank pays 35 per cent inter-est on your ..................
Principal
Principle
When we sell our house we will deal with ............... only.
principals
principles
When we sell our house we will deal with ................. only.
Principles
Principals
This is just between you and ...........; can you keep it under your hat?
I
Me
We spoke to Herbert and ............... only yesterday.
She
Her
Everyone seems well satisfied with the arrangement except ..........
He
Him
That's a personal matter between Jules and ; why don't you keep out of it?
We
Us
There is not a moment of quiet in that house nothing but ................. din.
Continual
Continuous
The spy will be ...........
Hung
Hanged
Don't look so (incredible, incredulous) when I tell you these things. They're true!
Incredible
Incredulous
It seems to me that you are ............ that I took the necklace.
Inferring
Implying
I think you can buy that paper in a ............... store.
stationary
stationery
That is an ............... attitude for a
grownup person to take.
ingenious
ingenuous
His money was ..........
robbed
stolen
What's the sense ............ doing it that way?
in
of
Use several ............... of sand when you mix the cement.
handfuls
handsful
Is there any (preventative, preventive) for tuber-culosis?
preventative
preventive
