What does commemorative mean?
Word: Commemorative
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Commemorative means made, done or held to honour and remember an important person or event.
How do you spell commemorative?
Syllables: com - mem - o - ra - tive
Tricky part: There are three m's: two together at the start, then one more after the e. Students often write comemorative or commemmorative.
Watch out for: comemorative, commemmorative
Memory tip: Picture three candles at a ceremony: two stand side by side at the front, and one stands alone after the e.
Commemorative in a sentence
Example 1: Uncle keeps a commemorative coin from the year he joined the railways.
Example 2: The school printed a commemorative booklet for its golden jubilee.
Example 3: Runners in the marathon received commemorative medals at the finish line.
Fun Fact
One of independent India's best-known commemorative issues is the set of four Gandhi stamps released on 15 August 1948, the first anniversary of independence.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
To mark the hundredth year of the city library, the town council planted a commemoritive garden of neem trees outside its main gate.
a) council
b) hundredth
c) commemoritive
d) garden
Show answer
c) commemoritive. After the last m comes o, then ra, so the word ends in orative, not oritive.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word commemorative as used in the sentence:
A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the school on its hundredth birthday.
a) decorative
b) memorial
c) temporary
d) wooden
Show answer
b) memorial. A commemorative plaque is a memorial one, put up so that people remember the day.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the meaning of the word that is spelt wrongly.
1. anniversery 2. monument 3. ceremony 4. commemorative
a) a building or statue put up to remember someone
b) a formal event held on an important occasion
c) the date each year on which something happened in an earlier year
d) made to honour and remember a person or event
Show answer
c) the date each year on which something happened in an earlier year. Anniversary ends in ary, not ery; the other three are correct.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word:
Grandpa framed the imecormomaevt stamp issued for the poet's hundredth birthday.
a) commemorative
b) cooperative
c) comparative
d) communicative
Show answer
a) commemorative. The jumble has three m's, which only commemorative has; communicative needs a u, an n, a c and an i.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A commemorative stamp is printed in order to ____.
a) test a new printing ink
b) mark an important person or event
c) pay for a parcel sent abroad
d) replace an old stamp design
Show answer
b) mark an important person or event
2. A commemorative match is played ____.
a) to test the pitch at a new ground
b) to choose players for a school team
c) to honour a famous player or event
d) to decide who wins the league
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c) to honour a famous player or event
