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Spell Bee Word: Carry


What does carry mean?

Word: Carry

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Carry means to hold something and take it with you from one place to another.

How do you spell carry?

Syllables: car - ry

Tricky part: There are two r's in the middle and a y at the end. Children often write cary or carri.

Watch out for: carri, carrye

Memory tip: Picture two r's carrying a heavy bag between them, side by side in the middle of carry.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. carry on: To keep doing something. Example: "The rain stopped, so we carried on with the game."

Carry in a sentence

Example 1: Can you carry this bag of apples for Nani?

Example 2: Ants carry tiny crumbs back to their home.

Example 3: I carry my water bottle to school every day.

Fun Fact

Carry comes from an old French word, carier, which meant to take something in a cart. The word car comes from the same Latin word, carrus, a wagon.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) kitchen
b) karry
c) basket
d) pocket

Show answer

b) karry. Carry begins with the same c as car.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

yrcar

a) rrcay
b) crray
c) acrry
d) carry

Show answer

d) carry. The two r's sit together, and the y comes last.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Please help me cerry this heavy box.

a) heavy
b) box
c) cerry
d) help

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c) cerry. The vowel after the c in carry is a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you use to carry water from a tap?

a) a comb
b) a bucket
c) a fork
d) a sieve

Show answer

b) a bucket

2. What is easiest for a child to carry?

a) a fridge
b) a piano
c) a lunch box
d) a sofa

Show answer

c) a lunch box

Associated Words

Words that end in -rry: blackberry, furry, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, worry

More words from this list

deer, foal, January, nine, ribbon, speech, volcano, baa

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