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Spot the wrong word in each line

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Statement parts
    1. It
    2. was
    3. on
    4. a
    5. dreary
    6. night
    7. of
    8. June
    9. that
    10. I
    11. beheld
    12. the
    13. accomplishment
    14. of
    15. my
    16. toils
    Correction
    November
    Incorrect part
    June
  2. Statement parts
    1. The
    2. oak
    3. had
    4. disappeared,
    5. and
    6. nothing
    7. remained
    8. but
    9. a
    10. blasted
    11. branch
    Correction
    stump
    Incorrect part
    branch
  3. Statement parts
    1. To
    2. examine
    3. the
    4. causes
    5. of
    6. life,
    7. we
    8. must
    9. first
    10. have
    11. recourse
    12. to
    13. sleep
    Correction
    death
    Incorrect part
    sleep
  4. Statement parts
    1. I
    2. resolved
    3. to
    4. make
    5. the
    6. being
    7. of
    8. a
    9. gigantic
    10. stature,
    11. about
    12. three
    13. feet
    14. in
    15. height
    Correction
    eight
    Incorrect part
    three
Instructions
Tap the one word that does not belong in each quoted line, then read the corrected line.

Explanation

_Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)_
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