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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling: Double Consonants (Questions)

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Double consonants are two of the same letters together, such as in the word 'letter' (t is seen twice). Consonants are letters of the alphabet that are not vowels (a, e, i, o, u). As always in English, it's not so straightforward.

Let's take the word cut. That's simple enough, isn't it? But when we add er, do we need to add an extra t or not? In this case we do. Cut, cutter, cutting. If we left it with just one t, it would be cuter which means more cute.

1. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] eat-eatting
[ ] cut-cutting
[ ] drown-drowning
[ ] walk-walking
2. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] help-helping
[ ] skim-skiming
[ ] run-running
[ ] sell-selling
3. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] open-opened
[ ] show-showwed
[ ] bet-betted
[ ] saw-sawed
4. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] sing-singging
[ ] sun-sunny
[ ] sign-signing
[ ] wash-washed
5. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] slim-slimmer
[ ] end-ended
[ ] begin-beginning
[ ] offer-offerring
6. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] thin-thinner
[ ] hot-hotter
[ ] small-smallest
[ ] big-biger
7. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] pump-pumped
[ ] enrol-enrolled
[ ] bow-bowwed
[ ] die-died
8. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] deep-deeper
[ ] start-starter
[ ] begin-beginer
[ ] metal-metallic
9. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] visit-visitted
[ ] talk-talked
[ ] signal-signalled
[ ] long-longer
10. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] trip-tripped
[ ] wax-waxxing
[ ] rip-ripped
[ ] strip-stripped
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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling: Double Consonants (Answers)
1. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[x] eat-eatting
[ ] cut-cutting
[ ] drown-drowning
[ ] walk-walking
It should be eating
2. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] help-helping
[x] skim-skiming
[ ] run-running
[ ] sell-selling
The correct spelling is skimming
3. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] open-opened
[x] show-showwed
[ ] bet-betted
[ ] saw-sawed
It should be showed
4. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[x] sing-singging
[ ] sun-sunny
[ ] sign-signing
[ ] wash-washed
The correct spelling is singing
5. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] slim-slimmer
[ ] end-ended
[ ] begin-beginning
[x] offer-offerring
It should be offering
6. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] thin-thinner
[ ] hot-hotter
[ ] small-smallest
[x] big-biger
The correct spelling is bigger
7. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] pump-pumped
[ ] enrol-enrolled
[x] bow-bowwed
[ ] die-died
Bowed is the correct spelling
8. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] deep-deeper
[ ] start-starter
[x] begin-beginer
[ ] metal-metallic
It should be beginner
9. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[x] visit-visitted
[ ] talk-talked
[ ] signal-signalled
[ ] long-longer
It should be visited
10. Which one of the following word pairs has an incorrectly spelled second word?
[ ] trip-tripped
[x] wax-waxxing
[ ] rip-ripped
[ ] strip-stripped
Waxing is how it should be spelled