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ELA Drills, Advanced: Main Idea. Which of these is a short statement about the main points of a story?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Parts of Speech 2. Which sentence shows when Ian got a job offer?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 3. Which sentence uses an ellipsis to indicate omission?
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ELA Drills, Advanced: Spelling 4. Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the dictionary
- 00:06
your best friend when it comes to spelling words correctly it's not [Girl hugging a dictionary]
- 00:10
exactly the most fun at sleep overs though probably worth your while to have a few [Girl putting makeup on the dictionary]
- 00:14
non book friends there too all right which of the following words is spelled
- 00:17
incorrectly and here are your potential answers all right
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- 00:20
All right so we've got just the sort of situation here where a [Boy flicking through pages in a book]
- 00:24
dictionary can help a ton much more than when you take an unintentional dip in [Man jumps into a pool]
- 00:28
the deep end of a swimming pool in that instance a dictionary is no help at all [Man shouting for help to the dictionary]
- 00:32
all right well let's start by taking a
- 00:34
gander at D now this word might have a lot of letters in it but its not too much of
- 00:38
a nuisance to spell, looks good to us so D is out what about C looks like every letter [The answer D is crossed out]
- 00:43
is in the right place so no need to worry about misspellings or barbarians at the
- 00:46
gate so C is out how about B yep another perfectly spelled word so we don't have [The answer C is coressed out]
- 00:51
a real fiasco on our hands not unless we invested heavily in option B in which [Woman has pile of papers put on her desk that are labelled B]
- 00:55
case we might have some explaining to do to our clients all right what about A, oh oh [Angry man walks up to the womens desk]
- 00:58
this word does not appear to be listed in the dictionary of Google and at all [Magnifying glass running over a dictionary]
- 01:03
bad news for option a good news for us the closest we can find is suffrage [Upset looking letter A next to a girl with her thumbs up]
- 01:08
which means the right to vote in political elections it's only off by one E
- 01:13
but it's enough for a misspelling so by unanimous vote a is our answer after [The answer A is ticked]
- 01:17
that virtuoso performance the dictionary might be our actual best friend thank [The dictionary smiling]
- 01:21
you google Sorry Melissa tell us when you can
- 01:24
spell chrysanthemum properly...
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