SPELLING: Practice Exercise 1 [Logo]
From the choices provided after each sentence select the word that, correctly spelled, would complete the sentence. Submit the form using the SUBMIT APPLICATION button at the end of the exercise. Your score will be returned to you in a few seconds.
Quizzes labeled "Practice Exercise" or "Additional Practice" are taken from the ancillary materials for Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide, by Evelyn Farbman, and are used by the Guide for Grammar and Writing with the kind permission of the book's author and the publisher, Houghton Mifflin.
1.  I don't care what you read on ____________ label! This is poisonous!
ITS
IT'S
2.  ____________ mine!
ITS
IT'S
3.  If ____________ patient enough, you might see a rainbow.
YOUR
YOU'RE
4.  They have left ____________ home because of the storm.
THEIR
THEY'RE
THERE
5.  ____________ going where no one has gone before.
WE'RE
WERE
WHERE
6.  ____________ bike is that?
WHOSE
WHO'S
7.  The computer has been ____________ there since yesterday.
SITTING
SETTING
8.  My brother ____________ in bed all day yesterday.
LAID
LAY
LIED
9.  How did they manage to ____________ that game?
LOSE
LOOSE
10.  The library has been incredibly ____________ today.
QUITE
QUIT
QUIET



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