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Spell Bee Word: Baseball


What does baseball mean?

Word: Baseball

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Baseball means a team game played with a bat and ball, in which players hit the ball and run round a field to score.

How do you spell baseball?

Syllables: base - ball

Tricky part: We hardly hear the e in the middle when we say the word quickly, but it must be written.

Watch out for: basball, basboll

Memory tip: Picture the e as a player standing in the middle of the field. Without it, the game cannot start.

Baseball in a sentence

Example 1: Baseball is very popular in the USA and Japan.

Example 2: He hit the baseball right out of the park.

Example 3: Arjun's cousin in America plays baseball every weekend.

Fun Fact

A baseball field is often called a diamond because the four bases form a diamond shape.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lbsaelab

a) baseblal
b) baesball
c) baseball
d) bsaeball

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c) baseball. Look for the game played with a bat, a ball and four bases.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ba_eball

a) s
b) z
c) c
d) k

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a) s. This letter makes the hissing sound, as in sun.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Rohan threw the basebal over the garden wall.

a) basebal
b) garden
c) threw
d) wall

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a) basebal. Two l's close the word, as in tall.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) hockey
b) cricket
c) baseboll
d) tennis

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c) baseboll. The vowel in the second half is an a, as in cat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Baseball is most like which game played in India?

a) cricket
b) kabaddi
c) kho-kho
d) chess

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a) cricket

2. In baseball, the player who throws the ball to the batter is the ____.

a) striker
b) pitcher
c) keeper
d) bowler

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b) pitcher

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Next steps

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