Once more, adapted from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage (to which he allows no-cost access at his Washington State University web page), here is a worksheet on the use of the noun misnomer. This is a full-page document with a reading of two sentences which define the word misnomer and instruct on its relatively simple use. The document continues with a list of ten obvious misnomers (e.g. “healthful cigarettes”) and calls upon students to build sentences around them.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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