Free Spelling and Usage Errors MCQs with Answers
33 Spelling and Usage Errors MCQs from English, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
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31. Choose the correct spelling for the words below.
- A. Perseverance
- B. Persevarance
- C. Perceverence
- D. Perseverence
Explanation: The correct spelling is perseverance, meaning continued effort despite difficulty. The middle sequence is -sever-, not -sevar- or -cever-.
Correct answer: Perseverance32. Choose the correct spelling:
- A. Brutility
- B. Brutality
- C. Brutelity
- D. Brutilety
Explanation: The correct spelling is brutality, formed from brutal with the suffix -ity. The spellings beginning with “brutel-” or “brutil-” are incorrect.
Correct answer: Brutality33. She made her stepson her _______to her large fortune.
- A. hare
- B. heir
- C. hair
- D. here
Explanation: An heir is a person who is legally entitled to receive someone’s property or fortune. Hair is on the head, hare is an animal, and here refers to a place.
Correct answer: heir