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English Quiz - Spelling 02 (Questions)

Strengthen your GCSE spelling skills. Explore patterns, word origins, and strategies that reduce errors and make your writing clear, confident, and exam ready.

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Fascinating Fact:

Ghost’s silent h arrived with Flemish printers in the 1500s. The word used to be gost in English.

In GCSE English, spelling builds accuracy and credibility. This quiz explores tricky patterns, silent letters, and word roots so your writing suits audience and purpose and reads smoothly in exams.

Key Terms

  • Etymology: The history of a word, showing where it came from and how its spelling developed.
  • Silent letter: A letter that is written but not pronounced, such as the b in doubt.
  • Doubling rule: Adding a suffix by doubling a final consonant, as in begin to beginning.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

Why do some English words have silent letters?

Silent letters often come from older spellings or borrowed words. Printers and scholars kept historical forms, which helps show meaning and word families.

What is the best way to learn hard spellings for GCSE?

Keep a personal error list, study patterns and roots, use mnemonics, and practise little and often. Always proofread slowly and check tricky endings.

When should I double a consonant before adding a suffix?

In short stressed words, double the final consonant before a vowel suffix, for example run to running. Do not double when the stress is earlier, for example visit to visiting.

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English Quiz - Spelling 02 (Answers)
1. She wrote ...... headings for each column.
[x] separate
[ ] seperate
[ ] seperete
[ ] separete
She wrote separate headings for each column
2. They were ...... expected by nine o'clock.
[ ] definately
[x] definitely
[ ] definitly
[ ] definatly
They were definitely expected by nine o'clock
3. Everyone knew that he ...... coffee to any other flavour of ice cream.
[ ] perfered
[ ] perferred
[ ] prefered
[x] preferred
Everyone knew he preferred coffee to any other flavour of ice cream
4. Education:  is it a ...... or a right?
[ ] privlidge
[x] privilege
[ ] privelege
[ ] privelage
Education:  is it a privilege or a right?
5. Harriet was certain that Robert had the ...... pencil in his ......
[ ] mechanical, possesion
[ ] mecanical, possession
[x] mechanical, possession
[ ] mecanical, posession
Harriet was certain that Robert had the mechanical pencil in his possession
6. The headteacher ...... upon us the unlikelihood that we would be given another ......
[ ] empressed, oppertunity
[ ] impressed, oppurtunity
[x] impressed, opportunity
[ ] empressed, opportunity
The headteacher impressed upon us the unlikelihood that we would be given another opportunity
7. Every day, the ...... announced its intention to promote new ......
[ ] goverment, bissnesses
[x] government, businesses
[ ] goverment, biznesses
[ ] government, busnesses
Every day, the government announced its intention to promote new businesses
8. He showed a ...... ...... in the obscure equipment held in the farming museum.
[x] surprising, interest
[ ] suprising, interest
[ ] surprising, intrest
[ ] suprising, intrest
He showed a surprising interest in the obscure equipment held in the farming museum
9. On Mondays, the school ...... was entirely ......
[ ] libraryan, unaproachable
[ ] librarian, unapproachible
[ ] libraryan, unaproachable
[x] librarian, unapproachable
On Mondays, the school librarian was entirely unapproachable
10. Despite their ......, they were expected in the director's office ......
[ ] exhaustion, immedietely
[ ] exhawstion, imediately
[x] exhaustion, immediately
[ ] exawstion, immediatly
Despite their exhaustion, they were expected in the director's office immediately
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