Lab Activities
Lab Activity 14: Improving Your Spelling
 
Objective To practice recognizing misspelled words and using correctly spelled words.

Step 1: In each item below, correct the misspelled word, add an ending as instructed, and use the word with that ending in a sentence.

Example:
Correctly spell exagyurate: exaggerate
Add the ending -ing: exaggerating
Sentence using word with ending: When I said Carrie was furious, I wasn't exaggerating.

     

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



     

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



     

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



     

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



     

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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



      Step 3: For each item below, select the choice in which all the words are spelled correctly. If the original sentence is correct as it is, select "No change."

1. you are despret to reduce the crying as you are peeling onions, you can probly do that by chilling the onion and cuting into the onion's root end last. [Hint]



      2. It may seem ridicyulus to some, disapoynting to others, and even embarasing to a few, but the average American eats about nineteen pounds of onions a year. [Hint]



      3. To me, this seems like alot of one type of vegetible, but some peepul really love their onions. [Hint]



      4. If you want to know where onions are truly prefered and thot of as importent, look to Libya, where 66.8 pounds of onions are consumed per person each year. [Hint]



      5. There are about a thousand American farmers who mayntayn a crop of onions, and these farmers have developped an unusualy small area for this, about 145,000 acres. [Hint]



      6. As discrybbed in an old English rhime, thin skins on onions mean a mild winter is begining while thick skins indicate a rough winter ahead. [Hint]



      7. A brilliant answer for those anxious to get rid of onion breath is to eat parsley. [Hint]



      8. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Seven of Spades was thretened to be beheaded for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions [Hint]



      9. This story contains characters displaying many different and suppriseing types of behavior. [Hint]



      10. If you are intrestted in knowing how much the largest onion ever grown weighed, check in a lybrarry for the refrance book Guinness Book of World Records. [Hint]



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



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