Common Misspellings Exercise


Knowing spelling rules, and their exceptions, can help you with these. Do the exercise, check your answers then check below the quiz for the spelling rules and tips.

1. Which one is correct?
  • comming
  • comeing
  • coming
2. Which one is correct?
  • beginning
  • begginning
  • begining
3. Which one is correct?
  • arguement
  • arguament
  • argument
4. Which is correct?
  • rember
  • remember
  • remeber
5. Which is correct?
  • finaly
  • finally
  • finnally
6. Which is correct?
  • receive
  • recieve
  • receave



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Use your knowledge of spelling rules to help you with these tricky spellings.

  1. coming = come + drop the ‘e’ with -ing = coming

  2. beginning = begin + ing (Add 1:1:1 doubling up rule for longer words) = beginning

  3. argument = argue (drop the ‘e’) + ment — This is an exception word. We usually keep the -e- with -ment but drop it in this word.

  4. remember = re + member (Use your knowledge of word family roots from Latin -mem- is for memory, remember, memo (only 1 x m in -mem-)

  5. finally = final + ly (Check out the Adding -ly lesson.)

  6. receive use the memory trick saying “i before e except after a long c” reCEIve. Or see all those e’s rEcEivE