Choose Appropriate Spelling to Make Meaning Correct

In this worksheet, students will develop their understanding of selecting the correct word to ensure grammatical accuracy.

Key stage: KS 2

Year: Year 5 English worksheets

Curriculum topic: Writing: Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Curriculum subtopic: Grammar Awareness

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Worksheet Overview

hand writing the word grammar

In the English language, there can be quite a few confusing things!

One of these is words that sound the same or similar, but mean something very different.

Knowing which word to use in your sentence is a great skill to have, and helps your writing make grammatical sense.

In this activity, you will work with a series of words and work out which one to use in a sentence.

Here are the word combinations you will be looking at.

personal/personnel

passed/past

licence/license

practise/practice

effect/affect

stationary/stationery

chose/choose

lose/loose

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