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TOEFL Vocab: Common Word Errors

Subjects : toefl, english, vocabulary

Instructions:

Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. That time
hear
then
alright
to

2. Obtain by purchase
it's
their
you're
buy

3. Thing you carry water in
breathe
to
accept
pail

4. A basic truth or law or assumption;
you're
by
accept
principle

5. Receive willingly something given or offered
advice
accept
thorough
breath

6. In a satisfactory or adequate manner
alright
hear
it's
threw

7. Past tense of choose
chose
accept
breathe
principal

8. An opinion about what should be done
you're
except
effect
advice

9. Something personal; think of the word 'heir' which refers to a person
principal
their
your
affect

10. Head of a school - remember - the princiPAL is your PAL!
aloud
principal
it's
breath

11. Become loose or looser or less tight
loose
whether
breath
through

12. Is it raining? sunny?
your
too
who's
weather

13. Past tense of throw
except
threw
there
weather

14. The present location
principal
hear
here
your

15. VERB! the act of drawing air into out of the lungs
weather
than
pale
breathe

16. Listen and pay attention
hear
here
principle
effect

17. Painstakingly careful and accurate
breath
choose
principal
thorough

18. Comparison; 'I'd rather go to the beach than school'
principal
then
than
you're

19. When something leaves a mark or has an impression on you
alright
affect
there
pail

20. Refers to a place - just as the word 'here' refers to a place. remember from 'here to there'.
there
pail
lose
hear

21. More of something - like the letter 'o'...too many 'O's'!
too
breathe
alright
chose

22. Preposition; usually 1 of 3 - not the number or the excessive one!
hear
to
you're
whose

23. NOUN; the actual AIR that is inhaled and exhaled when you BREATHE
alright
its
breath
accept

24. Contraction of 'it is' - if you can say 'it is' - it's right!

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25. Word that refers to something that belongs to someone
chose
principal
whose
alot

26. Contraction of 'who is'

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27. When you don't win
effect
whose
lose
breath

28. Permitted
allowed
whose
pail
except

29. Give advice to
alot
advise
their
who's

30. NOT A WORD - DOES NOT EXIST IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
except
alot
to
there

31. To bring about; the result of something
effect
advice
hear
alright

32. To select
threw
choose
breathe
breath

33. Possessive - something that belongs to you
your
threw
to
by

34. Used to talk about a choice between two or more possibilities
by
whether
to
it's

35. With little or no color
hear
pale
alright
accept

36. Possessive - something that belongs to you
through
they're
its
breath

37. Having finished or arrived at completion
affect
through
advise
then

38. Receive willingly something given or offered
its
accept
chose
to

39. Out loud
who's
too
chose
aloud

40. To leave out
whether
except
it's
whose

41. Contraction of 'they are' - if your friends can say 'they are' - they're right!

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42. Contraction of 'you are' - if you can say 'you are' - you're right!

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43. So as to pass a given point; 'She went by me'
their
breath
pail
by