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Basic Spelling Quiz #3 continued...

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2008-09-06 03:12:57.0

These are all word endings--30 questions--let us know how you did---results are at the bottom of the submit...

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gayle

Posted: Sep 6, 08 11:52am

KelleyA wrote:

I got 28 but I think it should be 29. I had likeable, the answer said likable was the correct answer but likeable was also acceptable.

I had 26 right 4 wrong 0 skipped

but one of those wrong was #13 likable/likeable, same as Kelly. I don't think I've ever seen it as likable, at least that I can remember.

Another I got wrong was #3 but it said it was wrong as an American spelling, but ok as a British spelling. Since in Canada we used British spelling that means I really got this one right.

The other two I tried the way I thought it was, decided it looked funny, changed it, of course what I had originally put was right. Why do we second guess ourselves? This used to happen to me on school tests too.

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ubukhan

Posted: Sep 6, 08 3:22pm

KelleyA wrote:

I got 28 but I think it should be 29. I had likeable, the answer said likable was the correct answer but likeable was also acceptable.

That's exactly what I had too. You are officially bumped to 29 and me, too.

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Sparrow

Posted: Sep 6, 08 8:36pm

Awww.... I guess I need to work on my word endings. I got 10 words wrong out of 30, and it is simply beoynd my understanding why we write "angeRed" but "confeRRed"; "desirable" (the "e" omittted) but "manageable". Also, it kind of hurt my feelings that in such words as "likeable -- likable" both spellings are acceptable yet the first one was counted as an error. I was mad! So, I am not a very skilled word ender anyway...

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