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- Constructing and Connecting Complete Sentences Exercise 1
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- Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 1
- Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 2
- Interrogative Sentence Patterns Exercise 1
- Interrogative Sentence Patterns Exercise 2
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 1
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 2
- Negative and Interrogative Sentence Patterns Exercise 1
- Negative Sentence Patterns Exercise 1
- Negative Sentence Patterns Exercise 2
- Prepositions Exercise 1: At, In, and On
- Prepositions Exercise 2: About, At, For, and To
- Pronoun Categorization Exercise 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement with “To Be” Exercise 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement with “To Be” Exercise 2
- Subject-Verb Agreement with “To Be” Exercise 3
- Subject-Verb Agreement with “To Be” Exercise 4
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- A Lot and All Right
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- About vs. Around
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- Advance vs. Advanced
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- Afflict vs. Inflict
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- Allude vs. Elude and Allusion vs. Illusion
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- As…As… Comparisons
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- Attend vs. Attend to
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- Avail
- Bare vs. Bear
- Be Sure to
- Because at the Beginning of a Sentence
- Being As and Being That
- Belong
- Between vs. Among
- Between…and…
- Bias vs. Biased
- Both…and…
- Breath vs. Breathe
- Bring vs. Take
- Can’t help
- Capable of [Verb]ing
- Cliché vs. Clichéd
- Commensurate vs. Commiserate
- Commentary on
- Compare to vs. Compare with
- Compare vs. Contrast
- Complement(ary) vs. Compliment(ary)
- Comply with
- Compose vs. Comprise
- Concerned About vs. Concerned With
- Confide in vs. Confide (Something) to
- Conscience vs. Conscious
- Consist in vs. Consist of
- Consistent with and Inconsistent with
- Contrast Expressions
- Could’ve, Should’ve, Would’ve
- Council vs. Counsel
- Count Nouns vs. Mass (Non-Count) Nouns
- Crutch vs. Crux
- Decide vs. Decide (up)on
- Different from vs. Different than
- Discreet vs. Discrete
- Discriminate
- Disinterested vs. Uninterested
- Downfall vs. Downside and Drawback
- Due to
- Economic vs. Economical
- Either/or and Neither/nor
- Emigrate vs. Immigrate
- Eminent vs. Immanent vs. Imminent
- Empathetic vs. Emphatic
- Emphasis vs. Emphasize
- Enthused vs. Excited
- Every Day vs. Everyday
- Familiar with
- Farther vs. Further
- Faze vs. Phase
- Find vs. Found
- Flaunt vs. Flout
- Genius vs. Ingenious vs. Ingenuous
- Graduate from
- Healthy vs. Healthful
- Hoard vs. Horde
- Hope vs. Wish
- If vs. Whether
- Imply vs. Infer
- In Back of
- In Some Aspects vs. In Some Respects
- In Time vs. On Time
- In vs. Into
- Incredible vs. Incredulous
- Indecisive vs. Indefinite vs. Indeterminate
- independent of
- Insight into
- Interest in
- Intransitive Verbs vs. Transitive Verbs
- Irregardless
- Its vs. It’s
- Kind of, Sort of, and Type of
- Known to [Verb] vs. Known for
- Lack vs. Lack of
- Last vs. Latter
- Latin Plurals (Data, Media, Etc.)
- Lend vs. Loan
- Liable vs. Likely
- Like vs. As and As If
- Like vs. For Example
- Loath vs. Loathe
- Moral vs. Morale
- More…Than… Constructions
- Need Not [Verb]
- Negative Comparisons: Not So…As…
- Oblivious of and Oblivious to
- Obsessed with and Preoccupied with
- Off of
- On Account of
- One of a Kind vs. The Only One of Its Kind
- Opinion of vs. Opinion About and Opinion on
- Ought to (Ought + Infinitive)
- Outlook on
- Overcome by vs. Overcome with
- Palate vs. Palette vs. Pallet
- Participial Adjectives: Present Participle and Past Participle Pairs
- Peak vs. Peek vs. Pique
- Persecute vs. Prosecute
- Persist in [Verb]ing
- Populace vs. Populous
- Prefer [One Thing] to [Another Thing]
- Principal vs. Principle
- Provide for vs. Provide with
- Provided That
- Quiet vs. Quite
- Redneck Pronouns
- Redundant Expressions
- Regard vs. Respect
- Rite of Passage
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- Superior to
- Supposed to
- Surprised at vs. Surprised by vs. Surprised to (Surprised + Infinitive)
- Than vs. Then
- The Reason Is That
- Tortuous vs. Torturous
- Try to [Verb]
- Up Until
- Used to
- Veracious vs. Voracious
- Verbals in Idioms: Infinitives and Gerunds
- Wait for vs. Wait on
- Wander vs. Wonder
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- Who vs. That and Which
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- Common Errors in English Usage
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