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 ANSWERS - Spelling

SPELLING HAVE A GO! – Spelling Rules 3

TEST 1: Spelling Rules 1 1 niece
1 made 2 bottle
2 bricks 3 rained
3 tractor 4 lucky
4 road 5 baking
5 write 6 taking
6 tricked 7 clapping
7 quickly 8 berries
8 friends
9 looked TEST 3: Spelling Rules 3
10 again 1 sticks
11 When 2 able
12 little 3 screamed
13 black 4 thief
14 before 5 puddle
15 match 6 ceiling
16 know 7 track
17 why 8 field
18 believed 9 click
19 luck 10 hiking
11 slipped
TEST 2: Spelling Rules 2 12 jogging
1 around 13 studied
2 deadly 14 biting
3 prawns 15 cherries
4 coin 16 waving
5 cardboard 17 sitting
6 ever 18 taking
7 anymore 19 baking
8 family
9 house HAVE A GO! – Spelling Rules 4
10 here 1 lunches
11 opened 2 ponies
12 very 3 holidays
13 crossed 4 knives
14 favourite 5 sheep
15 were 6 fingers
16 circle 7 teeth
17 who 8 crept
18 always 9 skipped
19 last 10 looked
20 said 11 replied
21 would 12 drove
22 animals
23 asked TEST 4: Spelling Rules 4
24 could 1 calves
25 became 2 songs
3 sheep
4 buses
5 birthdays

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6 daisies 7 where is/has

7 boxes 8 they are
8 geese 9 has not
9 boys 10 she will
10 stories 11 I’ve
11 began 12 we’ll
12 clapped 13 He’d
13 turned
14 kept TEST 6: Contractions
15 tidied 1 He’s grown very tall in the last year.
16 hobbies 2 It’ll be time to go home soon.
17 relays 3 We’ve been rock climbing all day.
4 I’d like to go too.
HAVE A GO! – Prefixes and Suffixes 5 does not
1 unhappy 6 what is/has
2 kilometres 7 must not
3 dislike 8 you will
4 painful 9 they have
5 nervous 10 you have
6 windy 11 we had/would
7 station 12 she is/has
8 soften 13 do not
9 gently 14 can not
10 misheard 15 They’ll
11 foolish 16 Here’s
17 Wouldn’t
TEST 5: Prefixes and Suffixes 18 haven’t
1 teachers 19 We’re
2 mouthful 20 I’ll
3 friendly 21 weren’t
4 frozen 22 She’d
5 painless 23 It’s
6 careful 24 didn’t
7 kindness 25 you’re
8 dentist
9 unfinished HAVE A GO! – Homonyms
10 doctor 1 to
11 return 2 knot
12 shortest 3 plain
13 undo 4 sail
14 disinterested 5 weak
15 baker 6 won
16 tasty 7 know
8 piece
HAVE A GO! – Contractions 9 son
1 Isn’t it a lovely day today! 10 our
2 He’ll be home late tonight. 11 blew
3 There’s heaps of fruit salad in the fridge. 12 made
4 I’m going to beat you this time. 13 threw
5 you had/would
6 was not

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TEST 7: Homonyms
1 new
2 would
3 great
4 whole
5 see
6 deer
7 hear
8 mail
9 read
10 tail
11 buy
12 know
13 right
14 seashore

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 ANSWERS - Grammar

HAVE A GO! – Nouns 6 shorter

1 Fraser Street is closed today so you can’t go 7 older
there. 8 eldest
2 Russ and Jenny are lucky to have three
wonderful children. HAVE A GO! – Verbs
3 On Fridays we always have a spelling test. 1 were
2 is
HAVE A GO! – Pronouns 3 has
1 their 4 have
2 her 5 thinks
3 their 6 The children help each other.
4 you 7 That person was stuck in the mud.
5 my 8 You should have run quickly.
6 your 9 He hit the ball for a six.
7 its
8 his TEST 13: Verbs
1 is
TEST 11: Nouns and Pronouns 2 jumped
1 We drove over the Story Bridge until we 3 are
reached Greenbank. 4 was
2 On Saturday, the 9th of December we are going 5 have
to Daniel’s birthday party. 6 write
3 The men will go skiing in September when the 7 were
snow is thick. 8 bit
4 Trudi and Leanne are going to Salter Oval to 9 live
watch the cricket match. 10 has
5 Do you know when I can get my friend a 11 crash
ticket to see the Easter Show?
6 her HAVE A GO! – Verb Tense
7 it 1 saw
8 me 2 thought
9 us 3 catch
10 hers 4 bring
11 They 5 break
12 it
13 your TEST 14: Verb Tense
14 you 1 have
15 my 2 dancing
3 hope
HAVE A GO! – Adjectives 4 bought
1 worst 5 shaken
2 more 6 came
3 better 7 ate
4 bright 8 drop
9 thought
TEST 12: Pronouns and Adjectives 10 lay
1 loud 11 said
2 worst 12 gave
3 least 13 seen
4 silky 14 wrote
5 taller 15 done

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16 blown TEST 16: Conjunctions and Articles

1 the
HAVE A GO! – Adverbs 2a
1 easily 3 an
2 happily 4 an
3 slowly 5a
6 because
HAVE A GO! – Prepositions 7 since
1 between 8 until
2 from 9 either
3 of 10 before
4 for 11 but
5 at 12 whenever
6 well
7 worse
8 best
9 gently
10 worst
11 quickly
12 terribly
13 angrily
14 really

TEST 15: Adverbs and Prepositions

1 on
2 between
3 at
4 to
5 by
6 onto
7 down
8 as
9 about
10 by
11 among

HAVE A GO! – Conjunctions

1 because
2 than
3 or
4 but
5 and

HAVE A GO! – Articles

1a
2 the
3 an
4a
5 an

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HAVE A GO! – Capital Letters
1 Liam, Sunday
2 Big, London
3 My, Anna
4 Street, Herston
5 The, Music
HAVE A GO! – Full Stops
1 I need to buy some grapes, apples and
bananas. I hope I have enough money.
2 I am so tired. I can hardly keep my eyes open.
I will sleep well tonight.
3 That music is too loud. It’s hurting my ears.
TEST 8: Capital Letters and Full Stops
1 Jack Smith and his friend went to Perth last
November by plane.
2 The rock star sang to a large crowd at Green
Park.
3 Jan bought balloons, streamers and sparklers
to John’s birthday party.
4 “Can you please drive me to school?” I asked.
5 Jenny said, “Please take this to Royal Parade.”
6 When we go to Cairns next year I’m going
rafting. It will be exciting.
7 I feel sick today. My throat burns and my eyes
sting. I’m going to bed.
8 Jo, Shane and David are going to watch the
football. It should be a close game.
9 My little brother plays baseball. I went to
watch him play. He hit a home run.
10 My dog loves to eat bones. He buries them in
the garden. Later he digs them up.
HAVE A GO! – Question Marks
1 “Should I turn left or right at the lights?” Pam
asked.
2 What colour is your car?
3 Matt asked, “Can you run faster than me?”
4 When will my present get here?
5 “Who is making all of that noise?” Mum
yelled.
HAVE A GO! – Exclamation Marks
1 “That’s wonderful!” she exclaimed.
2 “Stop that right now!” she required
3 “Throw it here!” the pitcher shouted.
4 I ordered, “Come here!”
5 “Ring the ambulance!” she cried out.
6 “Look out! There’s a snake on the path,” he
yelled.
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7 My favourite subjects at school are music, art,
science and maths.
8 I answered all the questions, although some
were hard, and finished the test.
HAVE A GO! – Commas
1 I am going shopping in the city with Mum,
Dad and my sister now.
2 “Don’t go now,” he answered, “you’re too
late.”
3 “I love reading,” Anne said.
4 My favourite ice-cream is chocolate, vanilla
and strawberry.
5 You do know, of course, that the plane has
already gone.
6 Tom, who is only three years old, can climb
that wall by himself.
TEST 9: Question Marks, Exclamation Marks
and Commas
1 Pat asked, “When are we going home?”
2 “Are you feeling alright?” Grandma asked.
3 “What’s on TV tonight?” Josh asked.
4 “I’ve won the lottery!” the woman screamed.
5 The fireman ordered, “Get out of the building
now!”
6 “I’m going home for dinner now,” he said.
7 The waves were blue, calm and inviting.
8 I took my book, towel and sunglasses to the
beach
9 The forest, so quiet and still, is a great place to
relax.
10 The desert was barren, hot, dry and harsh all
year round.
HAVE A GO! – Apostrophes
1 May I borrow Frank’s pen?
2 Please take these books back to Kim’s house.
3 Did you see Chris’s new shirts?
4 That kitten is Janet and Bob’s.
5 It’s about to build its nest.
HAVE A GO! – Speech Marks
1 “Can you please help me?” I asked.
2 She answered, “No thanks. I don’t like it.”
3 “I can’t do it,” said Don, “because it’s too
high.”
4 “I’m not going there!” Henry shouted.
5 Dad warned us that the rocks were slippery.
(Indirect speech)
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TEST 10: Apostrophes and Speech Marks

1 I hope it isn’t going to rain when we go to the
beach.
2 Are they Russ’s things or yours?
3 I’ll get ill if I eat all of that!
4 Mum doesn’t think you should go.
5 I think it’s going to build its burrow in the
river bank.
6 “I don’t want to go home now,” the little girl
cried.
7 Mr Green said that he liked oranges. (indirect
speech)
8 David shouted, “Yes! I’d love to go.”
9 “Yes please,” Gail said. “I would like some.”
10 “I don’t understand,” Sophie replied, “why
you won’t come with me.”

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