ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which word correctly uses a double consonant?
- acomodate
- accomodate
- accommodate (Correct answer)
- acommodate
Correct answer: accommodate
'Accommodate' has both double 'c' and double 'm': a-c-c-o-m-m-o-d-a-t-e.
Question 2: Which correctly spells the word meaning to say something out loud?
- pronounce (Correct answer)
- pronownce
- prounounce
- pronounse
Correct answer: pronounce
'Pronounce' is spelled with 'pro-' + 'nounce', sharing the same root as 'noun'.
Question 3: Which word is the correct spelling of a large body of salt water?
- oceun
- ocean (Correct answer)
- oceon
- osean
Correct answer: ocean
'Ocean' is correctly spelled with 'o-c-e-a-n', ending in '-ean'.
Question 4: Which word is correctly formed by adding '-ly' to 'probable'?
- probablely
- probably (Correct answer)
- probabley
- probabaly
Correct answer: probably
When adding '-ly' to 'probable', drop the final 'e' before adding '-ly' to get 'probably'.
Question 5: Which sentence contains the correctly spelled word?
- It was a privelege to meet her.
- It was a privilige to meet her.
- It was a privilege to meet her. (Correct answer)
- It was a privelige to meet her.
Correct answer: It was a privilege to meet her.
'Privilege' is correctly spelled with '-ege' at the end, not '-age' or '-ige'.
Question 6: Which is the correct spelling of the word meaning to give permission?
- aloud
- allowed (Correct answer)
- alowed
- alloud
Correct answer: allowed
'Allowed' (past tense of 'allow') means permitted; 'aloud' means out loud and is a different word.
Question 7: Which word is correctly spelled?
- mischievious
- mischievous (Correct answer)
- mischeivous
- mischevious
Correct answer: mischievous
'Mischievous' has three syllables (mis-chie-vous), not four; the 'ie' comes before the 'v'.
ICAS Spelling Rules and Conventions 5
Which word correctly uses a double consonant?