Test Your Grammar Skills

Yet another misspelled word in the overhead at church on Sunday prompted this little quiz. Just for fun, test your grammar skills (no fair looking up the answers -- they're pretty easy anyway) then go to our Comments section and post the number of answers you got right. Ready ... set ...

1. The team had (its, it's) first win of the year.
2. There was a (fowl, foul) odor coming from the neighbor's backyard.
3. There's quite an age gap between her and (me, I).
4. (Whose, who's) fault is it anyway?
5. I'm beginning to think (they're, their) not coming.
6. It was a heavy burden to (bare, bear).
7. His apology was in (vein, vain, vane).
8. I hate to exclude her, but she's such a (boar, bore).
9. We went as a matter of (course, coarse).
10. (Its, it's) one of my favorite books of all time).
11. I don't recall (there, their, they're) address.
12. The (cord, chord) on the lamp was twisted.
13. In the (past, passed) I would have (past, passed) on the pie.
14. I didn't mean to (bare, bear) my soul to her.
15. I couldn't follow the (vein, vain) of his explanation.
16. It was a (course, coarse) remark he made.
17. It struck a (cord, chord) with me.
18. Her (aid, aide) was late two days in a row.
19. I wonder how it will (effect, affect) their relationship.
20. A new haircut can certainly (alter, altar) one's looks.
21. It was a (capitol, capital) idea!
22. There was a (duel, dual) meaning to the paper he wrote.
23. She entered the room with a (flair, flare), which had nothing to do with fire.
24. I will (pour, pore) over the chapter until I have it memorized.
25. The (principle, principal) put forth a (principle, principal).

Match the definition:   Antonym, Homonym, Synonym

1. A word having the same meaning as another word.
2. A word having  the same pronunciation as another word.
3. A word having the opposite meaning from another word.

Answers are listed in the Comments section.