Commonly Misspelled Words
Quiz
Choose the correct answers the complete the gaps.
I'd like to cut the paper. Have you got a pair of ..... lying around here anywhere?
- scissors
- scisors
- sccissors
- sccisors
Ms Johanson has been hired as a ..... .
- secretary
- secretery
- secritary
- secratary
If you really feel she'd like to spend some time with you, ..... the opportunity and ask Lilly out. She's a terrific woman.
- seize
- size
- sieze
- saize
Although they are married, the husband and wife keep their ..... rooms.
- separate
- seperate
- sepparate
- separatte
..... Taylor and his squad were waiting for reinforcements when an enemy shelling started.
- Sergeant
- Sergant
- Sargent
- Sargeant
Lilly's bright, ..... smile will stick in my memory for as long as I live. There's no prettier smile anywhere in the whole wide world.
- shining
- shinning
- shineing
- sinning
The wiring problem doesn't seem to be much ..... to the one we experienced last month.
- similar
- simalar
- simmilar
- simular
I ..... hope you will get better soon.
- sincerely
- sincarely
- sinserely
- sinceerely
My uncle Preston is a ..... surgeon who is well-known all over the country.
- skilful
- skilfull
- skillfull
- skilfal
Seven American ..... were killed in an ambush at a far-flung checkpoint.
- soldiers
- solders
- soliers
- soliders