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    Commonly Confused Words Exercise

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    This document provides a list of 20 commonly confused word pairs and asks the reader to choose the correct word from brackets to fill in each gap. The word pairs included are accept/except, affect/effect, advice/advise, complement/compliment, discreet/discrete, eminent/imminent, exhibition/expedition, high/tall, ingenious/ingenuous, irrelevant/irreverent, practice/practise. This exercise tests the reader's knowledge of how to properly use these similar-sounding words in different contexts.

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    This document provides a list of 20 commonly confused word pairs and asks the reader to choose the correct word from brackets to fill in each gap. The word pairs included are accept/except, affect/effect, advice/advise, complement/compliment, discreet/discrete, eminent/imminent, exhibition/expedition, high/tall, ingenious/ingenuous, irrelevant/irreverent, practice/practise. This exercise tests the reader's knowledge of how to properly use these similar-sounding words in different contexts.

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    This document provides a list of 20 commonly confused word pairs and asks the reader to choose the correct word from brackets to fill in each gap. The word pairs included are accept/except, affect/effect, advice/advise, complement/compliment, discreet/discrete, eminent/imminent, exhibition/expedition, high/tall, ingenious/ingenuous, irrelevant/irreverent, practice/practise. This exercise tests the reader's knowledge of how to properly use these similar-sounding words in different contexts.

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    Commonly Confused Words Exercise

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    Nesma Abdelfattah
    This document provides a list of 20 commonly confused word pairs and asks the reader to choose the correct word from brackets to fill in each gap. The word pairs included are accept/except, affect/effect, advice/advise, complement/compliment, discreet/discrete, eminent/imminent, exhibition/expedition, high/tall, ingenious/ingenuous, irrelevant/irreverent, practice/practise. This exercise tests the reader's knowledge of how to properly use these similar-sounding words in different contexts.

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    Commonly Confused Words Exercise

    Choose one of the words in brackets to fill the gap.


    1 Do you ......................... payment by credit card? (accept / except)
    2 Everybody turned up at Fiona's party ......................... her exboyfriend. (accept /
    except)
    3 What ......................... did the high altitude have on you? (affect / effect)
    4 Did the high altitude ......................... you when you were in Quito?
    (affect / effect)
    5 She gave me some excellent ......................... about my girlfriend.
    (advice / advise)
    6 I ......................... you not to get involved in Sandra and Mike's problems. (advice
    / advise)
    7 We need to find something to ......................... the curtains.
    (complement / compliment)
    8 She got annoyed with me because I didn't ......................... her on her new hair
    style. (complement / compliment)
    9 Don't tell anyone about my promotion. I want to be as ......................... about it as
    possible. (discreet / discrete)
    10 Catalan and Valencian are not ......................... languages.
    (discreet / discrete)
    11 The weather forecast says that rain is ......................... .
    (eminent / imminent)
    12 Professor Pachorro is very ......................... among brain surgeons. (eminent /
    imminent)
    13 I wanted to see the ......................... about Manet in the Prado gallery in Madrid.
    (exhibition / expedition)
    14 A recent Spanish ......................... to the Antarctic has been collecting data about
    global warming. (exhibition / expedition)
    15 The South Downs, a range of hills running across Sussex, are not
    very ......................... . (high / tall)
    16 Tom Cruise is not ......................... . He's short. (high / tall)
    17 This is an ......................... device for opening bottles.
    (ingenious / ingenuous)
    18 Your argument is ......................... . Just tell me why you are in favour of a
    military solution. (irrelevant / irreverent)
    19 If you want to be a champion, you have to ......................... everyday. (practice /
    practise)
    20 Learning to dance the salsa is a question of going to classes and lots
    of ......................... . (practice / practise)

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