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Spell Bee Word: Choose


What does choose mean?

Word: Choose

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Choose means to decide which one you want from two or more things.

Sounds like: chews (bites food again and again in the mouth)

How do you spell choose?

Syllables: choose

Tricky part: Two o's sit in the middle. With only one o you get chose, the past form, which is a different word.

Watch out for: chuse, chewse

Memory tip: The two o's look like two round sweets on a plate, and you may have only one of them.

Choose in a sentence

Example 1: You may choose any colour for your kite.

Example 2: Which game will you choose for the party?

Example 3: It was hard to choose between dosa and idli.

Fun Fact

Speakers of Old English said ceosan for this word, more than a thousand years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

choo_e

a) z
b) c
c) s
d) t

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c) s. Rose and nose use this same letter for the buzzing sound.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

chooese

a) o
b) c
c) e
d) s

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c) e. No vowel is needed between the double o and the s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ohesco

a) chooes
b) shooce
c) choose
d) hcoose

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c) choose. The ch comes first, as in chair, and the silent e comes last.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

choose

a) pick
b) drop
c) ignore
d) refuse

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a) pick. When you do either of these, one thing is taken and the others stay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. You choose one mango from a basket of six. How many are left in the basket?

a) one
b) seven
c) six
d) five

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d) five

2. Which line shows Ravi making up his mind?

a) Ravi folds his blue shirt and puts it in a drawer.
b) Ravi washes his blue shirt and hangs it up to dry.
c) Ravi wears the blue shirt that his mum gave him.
d) Ravi looks at three shirts and takes the blue one.

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d) Ravi looks at three shirts and takes the blue one.

Associated Words

Words that end in -ose: goose, suppose, purpose, disclose, close

More words from this list

elbow, gravity, kingfisher, ocean, rib, squirrel, vinegar, awful

Next steps

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