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Choose Appropriate Spelling to Make Meaning Correct

In this worksheet, students will develop their understanding of selecting the correct word to ensure grammatical accuracy.

'Choose Appropriate Spelling to Make Meaning Correct' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 5 English worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Writing: Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Curriculum subtopic:   Grammar Awareness

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Worksheet Overview

hand writing the word grammar

 

In the English language, there can be quite a few confusing things!

 

One of these is words that sound the same or similar, but mean something very different. 

 

Knowing which word to use in your sentence is a great skill to have, and helps your writing make grammatical sense.

 

In this activity, you will work with a series of words and work out which one to use in a sentence.

 

Here are the word combinations you will be looking at.

 

personal/personnel

passed/past

licence/license

practise/practice

effect/affect

stationary/stationery

chose/choose

lose/loose

 

Ready to get started?

 

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