Category Archives: Worksheets

Here is a worksheet on the use of name and pronoun in tandem. This is an oddball document with a reading of seven sentences and six-sentence rewriting exercises. This worksheet derives, as do all worksheets under the header above, from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage (to which he allows unfettered, no-cost access at his Washington State University web page).

This document should help students understand the basic concept of usage; as far as the usage issue this document raises, I think you’ll see that students probably aren’t likely to commit the solecism this worksheet addresses.

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.

Here is a worksheet on the noun motion and the verb move and their use when moving for something in a meeting (e.g. “I move to adjourn and go pig out at an Indian buffet in Murray Hill” or “Herman made a motion to adjourn to an Indian buffet”). This is adapted, as is every document you’ll find under the title header for this post, from Paul Brians‘ book Common Errors in English Usage (which you can access for free at Professor Brians’ Washington State University web page).

This is full page with a reading of two sentences and ten modified cloze exercises.

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.

Here is a worksheet on the use of the adjective moral and the noun morale. This is a full-page document with a reading of two longish sentences and ten modified cloze exercises. Professor Paul Brians, from whose book Common Errors in English Usage this material is adapted (and to which he allows free access at his Washington State University web page), also nicely points out the pronunciation stresses in these words.

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.