Commonly Confused English Words

Choose a, an, the, or no article in original Questena sentences with fully specified contexts. The score reports correct article choices in this round, not overall English ability; usage follows contemporary standard British English.

Practise person and number agreement between subjects and verbs — tricky pronouns, compound subjects, phrases in between, collective nouns and there is/are — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise the past simple and past participle forms of more than eighty frequent English irregular verbs — pattern classes, confusable pairs like lie/lay, and British/American variants — in original sentences following standard British English; codified American variants are labelled and accepted. The score reports correct forms in this round, not overall English ability.

Match base forms with past simple and past participle forms for the irregular verbs already exercised by English Irregular Verbs. The score reports matches in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise choosing the right English tense and aspect — present simple or continuous, present perfect or past simple, future forms, used to and would, and tenses in time clauses — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise choosing the right English modal — ability, permission, obligation, advice, possibility and deduction, including mustn't or don't have to and modal perfects like must have and needn't have — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise choosing the right conditional structure — zero, first, second, third and mixed conditionals, unless and its alternatives, and wish or if only — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise building and choosing English passive forms — from present simple to modal passives, active or passive choice, by and with phrases, and double-object or get-passives — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise turning direct speech into reported speech — tense backshift and its exceptions, pronoun and time shifts, reported questions, commands and requests, and reporting-verb patterns — in original sentences following standard British English; codified alternatives are accepted, never marked wrong. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise 120 common English phrasal verbs in context — get, take, put, look, turn, break, come and go families, workplace verbs, three-part combinations, and where the object goes with separable verbs. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise English prepositions — at, on and in for time and place, movement and direction, for and since, by and until, dependent prepositions after verbs, adjectives and nouns, by and with, and the classic no-preposition verbs — keyed only where British and American usage agree. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise forming English questions and negatives — yes/no and wh-questions, subject questions, embedded questions, question tags, negative questions, no or any, and negative inversion — in original sentences keyed only where British and American usage agree. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.

Practise English relative clauses — who, which, that and whose, defining vs non-defining with commas, when the pronoun can be left out, prepositions in relative clauses, where, when and why, and of whom or of which — keyed only where British and American usage agree. The score reports correct answers in this round, not overall English ability.