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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Changing the ending to ing (Questions)

This 'Changing the ending to ing' spelling quiz tests KS1 children on how to spell words when adding this suffix. All the words have been taken from and added to the recommended spellings for Year 2 in the National Curriculum.

Hopefully you’ve completed the KS1 English quiz ‘Tense - Adding 'ing' and 'ed'’ and know when to add ‘ing’. These spellings are all on words that end with ‘ing’. Can you spell the missing words?

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1. Will you stop ____ what I say?
[ ] coppeying
[ ] copying
[ ] kopying
[ ] koppying
2. We are going ____.
[ ] hikeing
[ ] hicking
[ ] hickin
[ ] hiking
3. She put some delicious ____ on the cake.
[ ] iceing
[ ] icceing
[ ] iccing
[ ] icing
4. Are you ____ round for dinner?
[ ] coming
[ ] comeing
[ ] comming
[ ] commeing
5. She was ____ the horse on the nose.
[ ] pating
[ ] pattting
[ ] patting
[ ] patin
6. You should stop ____ rubbish on the floor.
[ ] droping
[ ] dropeing
[ ] dropping
[ ] dwopping
7. He keeps ____ away from me.
[ ] running
[ ] runing
[ ] wunning
[ ] wrunning
8. He kept ____ his bat with a mallet.
[ ] hittin
[ ] hitting
[ ] hiteing
[ ] hitteng
9. I was ____ to see if you wanted to play.
[ ] kalling
[ ] kaling
[ ] calling
[ ] caling
10. Will you do some ____, ____ and ____?
[ ] riding, runing and swimming
[ ] riding, running and swiming
[ ] ridding, running and swimming
[ ] riding, running and swimming

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Changing the ending to ing (Answers)
1. Will you stop ____ what I say?
[ ] coppeying
[x] copying
[ ] kopying
[ ] koppying
Sometimes, all you need to do is just add 'ing' onto the end of the word.
2. We are going ____.
[ ] hikeing
[ ] hicking
[ ] hickin
[x] hiking
Sometimes, if a word ends with an 'e' you need to delete the 'e' and replace it with 'ing'.
3. She put some delicious ____ on the cake.
[ ] iceing
[ ] icceing
[ ] iccing
[x] icing
The word icing is a noun and a verb. Icing is the food you put on cakes but it is also something you do - you 'ice' a cake.
4. Are you ____ round for dinner?
[x] coming
[ ] comeing
[ ] comming
[ ] commeing
Because the word 'come' ends in an 'e' we have to delete it then add 'ing'.
5. She was ____ the horse on the nose.
[ ] pating
[ ] pattting
[x] patting
[ ] patin
Another word for a horse's nose is muzzle.
6. You should stop ____ rubbish on the floor.
[ ] droping
[ ] dropeing
[x] dropping
[ ] dwopping
Another term for this is littering.
7. He keeps ____ away from me.
[x] running
[ ] runing
[ ] wunning
[ ] wrunning
Often, if the word has a short vowel sound, like the word run - then you double the end letter and then add 'ing'.
8. He kept ____ his bat with a mallet.
[ ] hittin
[x] hitting
[ ] hiteing
[ ] hitteng
Hitting the bat with a mallet is called knocking it in - this is where you compress the wood so that it doesn't break.
9. I was ____ to see if you wanted to play.
[ ] kalling
[ ] kaling
[x] calling
[ ] caling
You can either 'call someone' by phone or 'call on someone' by knocking on their door!
10. Will you do some ____, ____ and ____?
[ ] riding, runing and swimming
[ ] riding, running and swiming
[ ] ridding, running and swimming
[x] riding, running and swimming
If you do all these sports in one go, it's called a triathlon.