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REVISING THE POINTS
◆ Double the consonant after a short vowel sound when
adding more letters.
◆ Learn commonly misspelt words.

◆ Use a dictionary to check spelling and find the meaning
of words.

◆ Use a thesaurus to widen your vocabulary.

PRACTISING WHAT YOU’VE LEARNT
1. What is the plural form of the following words?

lady, company, monkey, tomato, boa, princess, dance

2. Add ‘-ing’ to the following words:
dine, live, hit, hop, skip, write, mate, mine

3. Form adverbs from the following adjectives:

happy, joyful, kind, angry, wonderful, clear,
quick, careless

4. Correct the following sentences:
(a) I no you are their.
(b) I can sea to ships on the see.
(c) Did you now there house is too be sold?
(d) Hear is you’re packed lunch.
(e) Their is a whole in your jacket.
(f) You can go to London two.
(g) The teacher kept in the hole class.
(h) The violinist took a bough.