23. Test Your Knowledge: Confusing Words and Commonly Misspelled Words

The following questions will test your knowledge of confusing and commonly misspelled words. Answer the questions to review what you have just learned.

Identify the errors in the following sentences, and consider how to best correct them.

I demand an immediate explaination for your unexpected absense from the meeting.

Which of the following is the best revision of the sentence above?

I demand an immediate explaination for your unexcepted absence from the meeting.

I demand an immediate explanation for your unexpected absence from the meeting.

I demand an imediate explination for your unexpected abcense from the meeting.

The pharmaceutical company will run two similiar clinical trials that most likely will yeild the same results.

Which of the following is the best revision of the sentence above?

The pharmacutical company will run two simalar clinical trials that most likely will yield the same results.

The pharmaceutical company will run two similar clinical trials that most likely will yield the same results.

The pharmaceutical company will run two similar clinical trails that most likely will yeild the same results.

Identify the errors in the following message, and consider how best to correct them.

To: DeShawn Davis

From: Peter Schmidt

Date: 13:45, March 31

Subject: Sales Correspondence

Dear Mr. Davis,

[1] Thank you for contacting Ego Building Associates. Ego personal take great pride in providing the most prompt, reliable service in building maintenance and repair.

[2] As we are located in the Arizona dessert, where stucco finish is popular, our staff recieves many work orders to repair stucco after tennents have relocated.

[3] Please send us your catalog of stucco services and finishes. Perhaps our companies will have the opportunaty to work together in the future.

Regards,

Peter Schmidt, Project Manager

Ego Building Associates

Which of the following choices is the best revision of Paragraph 1?

Thank you for contacting Ego Building Associates. Ego personell take great pride in providing the most prompt, reliable service in building maintanence and repair.

Thank you for contacting Ego Building Associates. Ego personnel take great pride in providing the most prompt, reliable service in building maintenance and repair.

Which of the following choices is the best revision of Paragraph 2?

Ego occasionally uses creditable subcontractors during busy times of tenant turnover.

Ego ocassionaly uses credible subcontractors during busy times of tenent turnover.

Which of the following choices is the best revision of Paragraph 3?

Please send us your catalog of stucco services and finishes. Perhaps our companies will have the opportunity to work together in the future.

Please send us your catalouge of stucco services and finishes. Perhaps our companies will have the oportunity to work together in the future.

Which of the following sentences employ correct spelling and word usage? Check all that apply.

The new electronic devise will keep track of your appointments.

Maurice was hired as CFO of a Fortune 500 company before he was even fourty years old.

Since we revised our action response plan, our office is well equipped to handle any emergency.

He began his ascent up the corporate ladder when he was very young.

Which of the following words means events used as an example for subsequent situations?

Precedence

Precedents

Which of the following words means unlawful?

Elicit

Illicit

Choose the best options to complete each of the following sentences.

Kevin manages the CompuServe account; however, during his paternity leave, the management between me and Shannon.

If you at convincing EdoCorp to agree to meet, you will have achieved your goal.