Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Changing the ending to ing (Questions)

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This 'Changing the ending to ing' spelling quiz tests elementary school children on how to spell words when adding this suffix.

These spellings are all on words that end with ‘ing’. Can you spell the missing words?

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Will you stop ____ what I say?

[ ]	coppeying
[ ]	copying
[ ]	kopying
[ ]	koppying

We are going ____.

[ ]	hikeing
[ ]	hicking
[ ]	hickin
[ ]	hiking

She put some delicious ____ on the cake.

[ ]	iceing
[ ]	icceing
[ ]	iccing
[ ]	icing

Are you ____ round for dinner?

[ ]	coming
[ ]	comeing
[ ]	comming
[ ]	commeing

She was ____ the horse on the nose.

[ ]	pating
[ ]	pattting
[ ]	patting
[ ]	patin

You should stop ____ rubbish on the floor.

[ ]	droping
[ ]	dropeing
[ ]	dropping
[ ]	dwopping

He keeps ____ away from me.

[ ]	running
[ ]	runing
[ ]	wunning
[ ]	wrunning

He kept ____ his bat with a mallet.

[ ]	hittin
[ ]	hitting
[ ]	hiteing
[ ]	hitteng

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

Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Changing the ending to ing (Answers)

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.

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'.

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.

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'.

She was ____ the horse on the nose.

[ ]	pating
[ ]	pattting
[x]	patting
[ ]	patin

Another word for a horse's nose is muzzle.

You should stop ____ rubbish on the floor.

[ ]	droping
[ ]	dropeing
[x]	dropping
[ ]	dwopping

Another term for this is littering.

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'.

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.

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.