Friday, September 10, 2010

Spell check won't work


Test your spelling by filling in these blanks with the correct word.  Remember that spelling counts!  If you want me to grade your spelling test, put your answers in the comments.

Choose THEIR, THERE, or THEY'RE:

1. He isn't _______________.
2. I'm not _______________ cousin.
3. _______________ are a lot of people who voted for him.
4. _______________ the people who voted for him.
5. _______________ children voted for him.
6. _______________ not very nice.
7. My mother lived _______________ for a while.
8. That's _______________ favorite singer.
9. Is this _______________ son?
10. _______________ right.

Choose YOUR or YOU'RE:

11. You are reading _______________ newspaper
12. Your feet are up because _______________ very tired tonight.
13. _______________ cat is sleeping on the floor next to you.
14. He likes to sleep next to you when _______________ reading the newspaper.
15. Please pick up _______________ baseball equipment.
16. _______________ baseball gear does not belong in the living room!
17. I know that _______________ a very good baseball player.
18. The nurse needs to take _______________ blood pressure.
19. "If _______________ not relaxed, your blood pressure reading will be incorrect, so please relax."
20. "_______________ blood pressure is a little bit high today.  We'll need to monitor it."


Bonus question:  What's wrong with this poster?  (Click to enlarge the poster, if you can't read the small print.)

2 comments:

CJ said...

1. there
2. their
3. there
4. they're
5. their
6. they're
7. there
8. their
9. their
10. they're
11. your
12. you're
13. your
14. you're
15. your
16. your
17. you're
18. your
19. you're
20. your

You mean besides the fact that the firing range safety officer is standing in front of the firing line?

'Your doing it wrong' should be "You're doing it wrong."

cjh

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Even Third World firing range officers know it's "you're"!

CJ, you are today's teacher's pet. Your "grade" is 100+ with the "plus" being for all that extra credit you earned.

I had planned to mention the misspelled word to anyone who pointed out the safety officer is standing in front of the firing line -- and his "wrong" position if anyone pointed out the misspelled word. However, you noticed both. Good for you!

I thought it was actually a fun test, trying to carefully sort out which word was meant in each blank. I hope you had fun with it.