Common Spelling Mistakes Exercise


Knowing spelling rules, and their exceptions; and knowing common letter patterns can help you with these. Do the exercise, check the score and your answers and correct the mistakes. Then check below the quiz for tips.

1. Which one is correct?
  • writting
  • writeing
  • writing
2. Which one is correct?
  • because
  • becuase
  • becuse
3. Which one is correct?
  • haveing
  • having
  • havving
4. Which is correct?
  • tomorrow
  • tommorow
  • tommorrow
5. Which is correct?
  • studing
  • studieing
  • studying
6. Which is correct?
  • I go to college.
  • I go to collage.
  • I go to colege.



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Correct answers:


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

  1. writing = write + drop the ‘e’ with -ing = writing

  2. because → -au- because letter pattern. be + cause = because

  3. having = have + drop the ‘e’ with -ing = having

  4. tomorrow = to + morrow (morrow is the old word for tomorrow/the following day. See tomorrow lesson.)

  5. studying = study + ing (keep the ‘e’ with -y)

  6. college → see the e’s at the end - college. Be careful collage is a different word.