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Spell Bee Word: Drive


Basic Details

Word: Drive

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: To control a car, bus or other vehicle and make it move. It can also mean to take someone somewhere in a car.

Synonyms: steer

How to Spell Drive

Syllables: drive

Tricky part: The e at the end is silent. It makes the i say its own name, so drive sounds different from driv.

Watch out for: driv, drieve, dryve

Memory tip: Drive belongs to the same family as five, hive and dive: i, a consonant, then a silent e.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. drive someone up the wall: To annoy someone very much. Example: "The dripping tap drove Mumma up the wall."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Papa will drive us to the railway station tomorrow.

Example 2: You need a licence to drive a car in India.

Example 3: We went for a long drive along the coast in Goa.

Fun Fact

In India, vehicles drive on the left side of the road, just as they do in Britain, Japan and Australia.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) drive
b) journy
c) travell
d) vehical

Show answer

a) drive. Vehicle ends in -cle, not -cal, and travel has only one l; journey needs its e too.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

vreid

a) drive
b) drieve
c) dirve
d) driev

Show answer

a) drive. The silent e must come last, after the v.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our bus driver will drieve very slowly through the busy market road.

a) driver
b) market
c) slowly
d) drieve

Show answer

d) drieve. Drive has no e after the i; its only e is the silent one at the end: d-r-i-v-e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who would drive a bus?

a) a bus driver
b) a baker
c) a tailor
d) a goalkeeper

Show answer

a) a bus driver

2. To drive a car, you hold the ____.

a) steering wheel
b) pillow
c) remote
d) spoon

Show answer

a) steering wheel

Associated Words

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Next steps

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