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Sentence Skills, Form A book cover
Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Commonly Confused Words

Writing On- and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can send your work to him or her by clicking the "Submit Answers" button. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Activity 1:

Use your favorite search engine to find an online list of homonyms. Do any of those on the list cause you trouble? If so, why not start your own list?
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Activity 2:

Consult The Elements of Style and see if any of the commonly misused words there give you trouble. Take notes.








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