Spelling Demon
This word means a seat for a king or a queen:
t-h-r-o-n-e
or
t-h-r-o-w-n
What is t-h-r-o-n-e?
This word part is added to the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
Example: care + ful = careful, or full of care
This tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject of the sentence?
This word is not needed in this sentence and should be taken out: The president and vice president met together.
What is the word together?
The verb meet includes the idea of together. Take out the word together and the sentence means the same thing without being redundant.
This word is not a synonym of the word absurd:
ridiculous
outlandish
old-fashioned
ludicrous
What is old-fashioned?
conceive
deceive
receive
What is "i" before "e" except after "c"?
This compound word replaces the last phrase in this sentence: She runs around with nothing on her feet.
What is barefoot?
She runs around barefoot.
This is the article that signals a noun in this sentence: I am going to the circus with my favorite aunt.
What is the word the?
This is the punctuation needed in this sentence: The party is on Saturday June 15.
What is a comma?
Explanation: A comma is needed after the word Saturday because it's used between a weekday and the day of the month.
This is how you use antonyms to correctly say this proverb: Not enough cooks improve the broth.
What is the proverb Too many cooks spoil the broth.
This is the correct spelling of the word:
g-r-a-m-m-a-r
or
g-r-a-m-m-e-r
What is the spelling g-r-a-m-m-a-r?
This is the word that completes this analogy:
State is to governor as city is to ________.
What is the word mayor?
This is what grammarians call this kind of sentence: Are we going to the ball game on Saturday?
What is an interrogative sentence?
Explanation: It asks a question.
This is how this sentence should be corrected: Me and Billy walked to the corner.
What is Billy and I walked to the corner.
Explanation: With a compound subject, use a subject pronoun after a proper noun.
This is how to correct his quote:
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man sick, poor, and stupid."
What is the quote Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
One of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, said this.
This is what you add to form the plural of these words: trio, alto, soprano
What is the letter "s"?
Here are other words that take "s" in the plural: banjo burro, piano.
This is a pair of synonyms in this group of three words:
perceive
observe
appreciate
What are perceive and observe?
This is the correct sentence:
Who rung the doorbell?
or
Who rang the doorbell?
What is Who rang the doorbell?
Explanation: The past tense of the verb to ring is rang.
countries
animals
religions
nationalities
What is animals?
Explanation: India, Islam, and Bengali are capitalized, but not tiger in the phrase Bengali tiger.
This is what these abbreviations stand for on college and university degrees: B.A. and M.A.
What is Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts?
What is five?
ton - sil - lec - to - my
This is where the word "encyclopedia" originally came from.
What is Greek?
It was borrowed by Latin and first appeared in English in 1644.
This is the number of these pronouns:
everybody, everyone, everything
What is singular?
These pronouns take a singular verb.
Correct: Everyone is here. (singular - can be replaced with he or she)
Incorrect: Everyone are here. (plural - can be replaced with they
This is how you would rewrite this sentence to make it correct: I have rewrote the letter twice.
What is I have rewritten the letter twice.
To rewrite is an irregular verb. The helping verb "have" requires the present perfect form of this irregular verb, which is rewritten not rewrote.
This is the correct saying for this phrase: Look before you jump.
What is Look before you leap.