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Spell Bee Word: Fireplace


What does fireplace mean?

Word: Fireplace

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Fireplace means an open space at the bottom of a wall where a fire is lit to warm the room.

How do you spell fireplace?

Syllables: fire - place

Tricky part: It is one word with no space: fire and place are joined tight.

Watch out for: fire place, fireplays, firplase

Memory tip: A fireplace is a place for a fire, but the two words snuggle up as one, with no gap between them.

Fireplace in a sentence

Example 1: Our hotel room in the Alps had a fireplace to keep us warm.

Example 2: Grandpa sat by the fireplace and told us funny stories.

Example 3: We hung paper stars near the fireplace for the New Year party.

Fun Fact

A chimney carries the smoke from a fireplace up and out of the house, so the room does not fill with smoke.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) fireplaice
b) fireplace
c) fireplece
d) firplace

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b) fireplace. Fire keeps its e, and place keeps its plain a, so only fireplace is right.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

plcareife

a) fireplace
b) firepalce
c) fierplace
d) fireplcae

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a) fireplace. Find the word place in the jumble; the letters left make the thing that burns.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

On cold winter nights, we sit near the fireplase and drink hot cocoa.

a) cocoa
b) nights
c) winter
d) fireplase

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d) fireplase. Place ends in ce, so fireplase is wrong.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) candle
b) blanket
c) fireplace
d) chimny

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d) chimny. Chimney ends in ey; fireplace, blanket and candle are spelt right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unsafe to burn in a fireplace?

a) small sticks
b) dry logs
c) a plastic toy
d) lumps of coal

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c) a plastic toy

2. In which month would a family in Shimla most likely light their fireplace?

a) January
b) June
c) August
d) May

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a) January

Associated Words

Words that end in -ace: grace, necklace, brace, interface, menace, space

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