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89 Spelling and Usage Errors MCQs from English, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
Spelling and usage errors include incorrect letter patterns, omitted or repeated letters, confusing homophones and wrongly formed words. Usage questions distinguish pairs such as affect and effect, its and it's, lie and lay, and principal and principle, while proofreading also checks agreement, tense and punctuation.
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- A. occurence
- B. occurrence
- C. ocurrence
- D. occurrance
Explanation: Occurrence doubles both the c and the r and ends in ence, which is why it is misspelt so often.
Correct answer: occurrence- A. affect
- B. effect
- C. affects
- D. efect
Explanation: Effect is the noun meaning result, while affect is the verb meaning to influence, so the medicine affected the patient and had an effect…
Correct answer: effect- A. accept
- B. except
- C. expect
- D. aspect
Explanation: Except means excluding, while accept means to receive willingly, and the sentence needs the sense of leaving a group out.
Correct answer: except- A. less
- B. fewer
- C. lesser
- D. little
Explanation: Fewer is used with countable nouns such as complications, while less is used with uncountable ones such as time, money or water.
Correct answer: fewer- A. between
- B. among
- C. amongst all
- D. within
Explanation: Between is used for two parties and among for three or more, and here there are exactly two departments.
Correct answer: between- A. affect
- B. effect
- C. affection
- D. effective
Explanation: A noun is needed after the article a and the adjective positive, and effect is the noun meaning result.
Correct answer: effect- A. expalanation
- B. explaination
- C. explnasion
- D. explanation
Explanation: The correct spelling is explanation, which drops the i of explain, and that dropped letter is exactly what the second option restores…
Correct answer: explanation- A. Imtiaz invited me on a dinner party at restaurant.
- B. Imtiaz invited me on a diner party at restaurant.
- C. Imtiaz invited me on a dinner party at resturant.
- D. Imtiaz invited me on a dinnar party at restaurent.
Explanation: Only the first option spells both dinner and restaurant correctly. A diner is a person eating or a small roadside cafe, so the second…
Correct answer: Imtiaz invited me on a dinner party at restaurant.- A. promiscous
- B. promiscuous
- C. promiscuuous
- D. promisscuous
Explanation: “Promiscuous” is the correct spelling, meaning indiscriminate or involving many casual sexual relationships.
Correct answer: promiscuous- A. Recrudescence.
- B. Recrudascence
- C. Recrudescance
- D. Recrudescince
Explanation: The correct spelling is “recrudescence,” meaning the return or revival of something after a period of decline.
Correct answer: Recrudescence.- A. Condescend
- B. Condascend
- C. Condescand
- D. Condiscend
Explanation: “Condescend” is spelled with “-descend,” just like the related verb “descend.” The forms using “a” or “isc” are misspellings.
Correct answer: Condescend- A. Auxuliary
- B. Auxilliary
- C. Auxiliary
- D. Auxuiliarye
Explanation: The correct spelling is “auxiliary,” meaning providing additional help or support.
Correct answer: Auxiliary- A. Commision
- B. Comission
- C. Comision
- D. Commission
Explanation: The correct spelling is “commission,” with double “m” and double “s.” The other forms omit one of these repeated letters.
Correct answer: Commission- A. Cemetary
- B. Cemetery
- C. Cemmetary
- D. Cemmetery
Explanation: The correct spelling is “cemetery,” containing “e” after the initial “c” and ending in “-tery.” The common error is writing “-etary.”
Correct answer: Cemetery- A. Milennium
- B. Millenium
- C. Millennium
- D. Milenium
Explanation: The correct spelling is “millennium,” with double “l,” double “n,” and the ending “-ium.” The other options leave out one of the repeated…
Correct answer: Millennium- A. Succide
- B. Suicide
- C. Sucide
- D. Suiccide
Explanation: The correct spelling is “suicide,” formed from “sui” and “-cide,” meaning killing. The other choices add or omit letters incorrectly.
Correct answer: Suicide- A. already
- B. altogether
- C. all together
- D. all ready
Explanation: All ready means completely prepared, which fits the question about leaving on vacation.
Correct answer: all ready- A. Benefited
- B. benifited
- C. benifitted
- D. None of These
Explanation: “Benefited” is correctly formed from “benefit” by adding “-ed.” The other spellings incorrectly replace the second “e” or misspell the…
Correct answer: Benefited- A. Qoloquial
- B. Coloquial
- C. Colloqial
- D. Colloquial
Explanation: The correct spelling is “colloquial,” meaning characteristic of informal speech.
Correct answer: Colloquial- A. Etiquite
- B. Etiquette
- C. Etikuit
- D. None of These
Explanation: Etiquette is the correct spelling for the customary rules of polite behaviour.
Correct answer: EtiquetteSpelling and Usage Errors MCQs: common questions
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