This 'Contractions Part 2' spelling quiz asks KS1 children to spell contractions and names with the possessive apostrophe. All these spellings have been taken from and added to those in the National Curriculum.
Hopefully, you’ve completed ‘Contractions Part 1’ and are ready for some more. This time you’ll be contracting words and also showing the possessive apostrophe! See if you can get top marks in this spelling quiz.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling
We are combining the words you and will.
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When people speak, they often talk with the words shortened like this. If you write speech, try to use contractions as it'll sound more natural.
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The word does is quite hard to spell but try and remember it as it's a high frequency word.
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The name of the girl is Megan and it's her birthday. Her name will never be Megans. This means if you add an 's' onto the end of her name - there will always be an apostrophe before it.
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His name is not Ravis - it's Ravi. The birthday is his and belongs to him - that's why there is an apostrophe.
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There is only one girl and she owns her hair, that's why there is an apostrophe. If there were more than one, we would write: The girls' hair was blonde. The apostrophe after the 's' means more than one.
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The boy owns his coat and that's why there's an apostrophe.
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We are joining there and is together and showing that the child owns the decision to have a favourite shop.
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The man owns his suit and we have combined that and is together.
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We aren't combining two words for 'dog's' instead we are showing that the dog owns his fur.
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