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Prescribe / Proscribe - Exercise 2

Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Answers" button to view the answers.

1. The government ( prescribes proscribes) anyone from committing arson.

2. Certain video games are (prescribed proscribed) for children under 16 because of the violence the games contain.

3. My mother always (prescribed proscribed) a day off from school if I was not feeling well.

4. John needs to be (prescribed proscribed) a daily routine so that he can maintain a good program.

5. Would you (prescribe proscribe) your friends from smoking around you if you quit?

6. The typical medication (prescribed proscribed) for a headache is aspirin.

7. A "spoon full of sugar" is what Mary Poppins would (prescribe proscribe) as a remedy.

8. Even though the coach (prescribed proscribed) him from running, he ran a mile every day.

9. Why would the doctor (prescribe proscribe) two antibiotics that cancel out the effect of each other?

10. He was (prescribed proscribed) from missing one more day of school.