The Notorious Confusables

Select one answer from the choices provided after each sentence. The word you choose should fit the blank in the sentence.

1.  I couldn't tell _______________ she was serious or not.
whether
weather

2.  ____________ are too many possible answers to this question.
They're
There
Their

3.  _________ going to help me with this?
Whose
Who's

4.  Reading that book had a peculiar _______________ on Evelyn.
effect
affect

5.  I am completely _________________ in this course.
uninterested
disinterested

6.  I'm afraid she's going to _____________ her grandmother's wedding band.
loose
lose

7.  My mother has been _______________ in bed all morning.
lieing
laying
lying

8.  She has apparently found it difficult to ___________ the circumstances.
accept
except

9.  She apparently doesn't care about ___________ origins in antiquity.
it's
its

10.  It's usually hotter __________ this in July.
than
then

11.  The politicians can't seem to find an appropriate ___________ for the new community college.
cite
sight
site

12.  I've never known the library to be _____________ this quiet.
quite
quiet
quit

Notorious Confusables.

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