ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When adding '-ing' to 'run', what is the correct spelling?
- runing
- running (Correct answer)
- runeing
- runnning
Correct answer: running
For short vowel words ending in a single consonant, double the consonant before adding '-ing': 'running'.
Question 2: Which word correctly uses the '-tion' suffix?
- educasion
- educattion
- education (Correct answer)
- educacion
Correct answer: education
The correct spelling uses '-tion' after 'educa-' to form 'education'.
Question 3: Which is the correct plural of 'tomato'?
- tomatos
- tomatoes
- tomatoes (Correct answer)
- tomatose
Correct answer: tomatoes
Words ending in '-o' preceded by a consonant generally take '-es' in the plural: 'tomatoes'.
Question 4: Which word is correctly spelled?
- seperate
- desparate
- definite (Correct answer)
- grammer
Correct answer: definite
'Definite' is correctly spelled; 'separate', 'desperate', and 'grammar' are the correct forms of the other options.
Question 5: Which correctly spells a word with the 'ough' pattern meaning to cough?
- coff
- cough (Correct answer)
- caugh
- coff
Correct answer: cough
'Cough' uses the '-ough' pattern, which in this case makes an 'off' sound.
Question 6: Choose the correctly spelled homophone to complete: 'The wind ___ through the trees.'
- blew (Correct answer)
- blue
- bloo
- bluw
Correct answer: blew
'Blew' is the past tense of 'blow' and is the correct homophone here, not 'blue' (a color).
Question 7: Which word is formed correctly by adding '-ness' to 'happy'?
- happyness
- hapiness
- happiness (Correct answer)
- happines
Correct answer: happiness
When adding '-ness' to a word ending in 'y', change the 'y' to 'i': 'happy' → 'happiness'.
ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 3
When adding '-ing' to 'run', what is the correct spelling?