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?

10. At war’s end, Canada proudly boasted the third largest navy in the world with 373 fighting ships and more ( than then ) 110,000 members, each and every one of them a volunteer.
than
then