Prendre des cours d'anglais est vivement recommandé afin de ne plus confondre ces mots prêtant à confusion. Voici un exercice.
If you use a word not correctly, learn from your mistake. Find out what the correct word or expression should be, and then use both the correct and incorrect words in sentences so that can understand and remember the difference.
Choose the correct word for each sentence.
When you're sure that you know the right answers, cross out the wrong ones.
e.g He's only five, but he's very big/ great for his age.
1. Could you borrow/ lend me some money?
2. Please bring/ take that book over here.
3. I'd like to buy/ pay you a drink.
4. Can you check/ control that the baby's all alright?
5. You must come/ go and visit us sometime.
6. Take your books off the bedroom floor/ ground.
7. I think I forgot/ left my gloves at the cinema.
8. Please hear/ listen to this carefully.
9. Short women often love high/ tall men.
10. The dog ate it's/ its food noisily.
11. I'm cook/ cooker in a hotel.
12. She loves reading about the last/ latest fashion.
13. I passed/ past the shop on the way home.
14. Be quiet/ quite! He's trying to sleep!
15. He saw/ watched her carefully to learn how to do it.
16. Can you say/ tell me what he said?
17. Who's/ whose book is this?
Write your own sentence with the correct word, it will help you t remember how to use it.