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ELA Drills, Advanced: Spelling 1 108 Views


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ELA Drills, Advanced: Spelling 1. Which of the words is spelled incorrectly?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by interruption.. it's

00:08

also brought to you by yeah, well that was rude. Which of the words is spelled [Girl makes a squeaky noise on a megaphone]

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incorrectly and here are the potential answers, all right so one of these four. Okay

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we're looking for the one word that isn't a word diagnosis looks okay [words lined up together in place of peoples faces]

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personality is all right too where we're going to run into trouble is with one of

00:27

these two words because one of them has double letter problems either

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interrogative is missing a second 'R' there or else interruption has one too

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many so which is it well interruption is tricky because the word eruption only [eruption scribbled on a notepad]

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has one 'R' but the two words even though they look and sound similar

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aren't really related not unless you're in the middle of a conversation in a [Two older men in conversation near a volcano]

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particularly loud volcano cuts you off.. The problem is actually with

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interrogative well if you only have one 'R' as shown here the word would

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probably be pronounced interrogative for instead of interrogative so yeah

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depending on the number of R's we've got our words going to sound totally [Man in a mexican hat shaking a maraca]

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different and because the first pronunciation isn't right well we should

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be able to figure out that we're missing an 'R' there meaning B is the correct

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answer we're really glad we got through that whole thing without being shh. [Children writing on paper]

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guess we spoke too soon

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