Cavanah, ENG 9 Inclement Weather DAY10: Commonly Misspelled Words NAME: ______Pd:___
Cavanah, ENG 9 Inclement WeatherDAY10: Commonly Misspelled Words NAME: ______Pd:___
PART 1 - DIRECTIONS: Following is a list of the some of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language.
-FIRST, in the space beside/beloweach word, NEATLY PRINT IT CORRECTLY THREE TIMES.
-NEXT, take the PRACTICE TEST on the back, without looking at the correct spellings. Also, CHECK your answers.
(NOTE: You will be tested only on the correct spelling of the word. However, if you don’t know what the word is or means, you should use a dictionary and/or thesaurus to look up the pronunciation, definition and synonyms that mean the same.)
1) acceptable
2) accidentally
3) argument (Drop “e” from argue.)
4) backward (no “s” on the end)
5) believe (Remember, “i” before “e” – except after “c.”)
6) basically (Add “-al” before the “-ly.”)
7) calendar
8) category
9) definitely
10) existence
11) experience (Experience four “E’s.”)
12) February So cold it’s spelled with “br” – like shivering “brrrr” – and makes you want to “bru” (brew) hot tea.
13) forward (no “s” on the end)
14) humorous
15) independent
16) January (NOT an extra “r” like February)
17) judgment (Drop “e” from judge.)
18) license (one “c,” one “s”)
19) occasionally (Add “-al” before the “-ly.”)
20) pastime (Drop an “s” before joining “pass” and “time.”)
21) receive (Remember, “i” before “e” – except after “c”)
22) restaurant(“Urant” – i.e., you rant -- if you don’t like the food.)
23) separate(contains “a rat”)
24) toward (no “s” on the end)
25) weird (The word weirdreally is weird and breaks the rule of “‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c.’”) continued…
Page 2 of 2 DAY 10 - Commonly Misspelled Words - Practice Quiz NAME: ______Pd: _____
PART 2 - DIRECTIONS: CIRCLE the correct spelling in each line.
1) exceptable, exceptible, acceptable, acceptible
2) accidently, accidentally, accidentaly, acidentally
3) argument, arguement, arguemant, argumant
4) backwards, back-wards, back-wards, backward
5) beleive, believe, beleave, balieve
6) basicly, basicaly, basically, basicalily
7) calander, calendar, calandar, calender
8) category, catagory, catigory, catogory
9) definately, definatly, definitely, definatally
10) existence, existance, existince, existants
11) experiance, expierance, experience, expierience
12) Febuary, Feburary, February, Februery
13) forward, forwards, fore-ward, foreward
14) humerous, humorous, humorus, humeruous
15) independant, independent, indapendant, endependant
16) Janurary, January, Janruary, Januaury
17) judgement, judgment, judgment, judgemant
18) license, lisense, lisence, licence
19) occasionally, occasionly, ocassionally, ocassionly
20) pasttime, passtime, pastime, pass-time
21) recieve, receive, racieve, raceive
22) restaurant, restuarant, restaraunt, resturant
23) seperate, separate, seprate, sepparate
24) toward, towards, tward, twards
25) wierd, weird, weard, werid
PART 3 – DIRECTIONS - Now, go back and check your answers. Do NOT erase your wrong answers, but
put an “X” over the misspelled words that you incorrectly circled AND also circle the correct one.