Writing Handbook Exercises
 

Confusables

For each sentence below, select the correct word in the parentheses. The content of each sentence will determine only one suitable choice.

example:

How will these changes ( effect affect ) the Corporal, who makes up the largest component of the NCM cadre?

4. Professor Jack Granatstein, one of Canada’s best known historians, explains this
( phenomenon phenomena ) in terms which have more to do with Canada’s collective psyche than with its foreign policy.
phenomenon
phenomena