ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which word is a correctly spelled compound word?
- tooth-paste
- toothpaste (Correct answer)
- tooth paste
- tuthpaste
Correct answer: toothpaste
'Toothpaste' is written as one compound word without a hyphen or space.
Question 2: Which correctly spells the past tense of 'carry'?
- carryed
- carried (Correct answer)
- caried
- caryed
Correct answer: carried
When adding '-ed' to a verb ending in 'y' preceded by a consonant, change 'y' to 'i': 'carried'.
Question 3: Which word contains a correctly spelled prefix meaning 'not'?
- ilegible
- illegible (Correct answer)
- illegeble
- ilegable
Correct answer: illegible
The prefix 'il-' (meaning 'not') attaches to 'legible' to form 'illegible', with double 'l'.
Question 4: Which word is spelled correctly?
- managable
- manageable (Correct answer)
- manegeable
- managible
Correct answer: manageable
'Manageable' keeps the 'e' from 'manage' before '-able' to preserve the soft 'g' sound.
Question 5: Which sentence uses the correct spelling of a commonly confused pair?
- The weather effected everyone.
- The weather affected everyone. (Correct answer)
- The whether affected everyone.
- The weather affecked everyone.
Correct answer: The weather affected everyone.
'Affected' (verb, meaning to influence) is correct here; 'effected' means to bring about a result.
Question 6: Which is the correctly spelled superlative form of 'good'?
- goodest
- gooder
- best (Correct answer)
- bestest
Correct answer: best
'Good' is an irregular adjective whose superlative form is 'best', not formed by adding '-est'.
Question 7: Which word is spelled correctly?
- acquaintance (Correct answer)
- aquaintance
- acquaintence
- acquantance
Correct answer: acquaintance
'Acquaintance' is correctly spelled with 'cqu' at the start and '-ance' at the end.
ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 4
Which word is a correctly spelled compound word?