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Spell Bee Word: Farmyard


What does farmyard mean?

Word: Farmyard

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Farmyard means the open area around farm buildings where animals are kept.

How do you spell farmyard?

Syllables: farm - yard

Tricky part: The second part is yard, with ar, not yad or yerd.

Watch out for: farmyad, farmyerd, fermyard

Memory tip: Both halves have ar: f-ar-m and y-ar-d. Spot the two ar's and you will spell it right.

Farmyard in a sentence

Example 1: Goats and hens wandered around the farmyard.

Example 2: The farmyard was muddy after the monsoon rain.

Example 3: Our cousins chased the ducks across the farmyard.

Fun Fact

The yard in farmyard comes from the Old English geard, a fenced-in space. The word garden comes from a related old word.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) cortyard
b) farmyard
c) vinyard
d) dokyard

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b) farmyard. Farmyard keeps farm and yard whole; the other three each drop a letter from their first part.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) poultery
b) stabel
c) cowshedd
d) farmyard

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d) farmyard. The ar in both halves is in place, while cowshed has one d and stable ends in le.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

farmmyard

a) a
b) r
c) m
d) y

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c) m. Farm ends in m and yard starts with y, so only one m sits at the join.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Early in the morning, the cockerels in the farmyard woke the whole villege.

a) cockerels
b) whole
c) farmyard
d) villege

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d) villege. Village ends in age, like cottage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal is NOT usually kept in a farmyard?

a) A hen
b) A goat
c) A buffalo
d) A deer

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d) A deer

2. Which job is done in the farmyard?

a) Selling milk in town
b) Sowing seeds in a far field
c) Feeding the hens
d) Driving grain to the market

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c) Feeding the hens

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