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Word Usage Problems

Each sentence contains one incorrect or misused word. Click on the incorrect word and enter the correct word. After you have found all the errors, click "Check."

1. Choose an exercise that’s fun for you and involves supportive friends.

2. After at the ceiling for hours, she eventually rolled out of bed sometime after noon.

3. High journalistic standards reduce the chance of being sued for .

4. The program was interrupted by yet another campaign ad.

5. First appearing in rural areas, meth is now a problem in cities all across the country.

6. It's time to move our differences and unite around a common cause. [This example comes from the blog of a newspaper editor!]

7. Crack, known as the "poor man's drug," hit the scene in the 1980s and lower-class communities.

8. Before she knew it, she was in a war of gestures with the other driver.

9. Reviewers crowded around the exhibit, hoping to get a at the new models.

10. The article discusses some of the methods used to crime on college campuses.

11. Blacks' share of state contracts is .

12. They recently expanded the menu to include tips of beef.