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Spell Bee Word: Gardener


What does gardener mean?

Word: Gardener

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Gardener means a person who looks after a garden or a park, sowing seeds, watering the beds and pulling out weeds.

How do you spell gardener?

Syllables: gar - den - er

Tricky part: We often say gard-ner, but the e in the middle must be written.

Watch out for: gardner, gardenner

Memory tip: Keep the middle e that most of us swallow when we say the word fast: it has three beats, not two.

Gardener in a sentence

Example 1: The gardener waters the rose bushes every evening.

Example 2: Our school gardener showed us how to plant tulsi seeds.

Example 3: Ramu kaka, the gardener, planted marigolds along the school gate.

Fun Fact

In Hindi and many other Indian languages, a gardener is called a mali.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

garden

a) or
b) ur
c) ar
d) er

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d) er. Garden takes er for the person, as farm does in farmer.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) shopkeper
b) carpinter
c) gardener
d) electrisian

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c) gardener. Carpenter has pen, electrician ends in cian and shopkeeper has a double e.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

garrdener

a) n
b) g
c) d
d) r

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d) r. The r sound in the first beat is written once.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

g_r_ener

a) u, d
b) a, d
c) a, t
d) e, d

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b) a, d. The first gap takes an a, as in car; the second takes a d.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A gardener's work includes ____.

a) fixing the tap
b) painting the wall
c) mending the fan
d) trimming the hedge

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d) trimming the hedge

2. Which tool would a gardener carry?

a) a stapler
b) a spanner
c) a spade
d) a ladle

Show answer

c) a spade

Associated Words

Words that end in -ner: inner, fastener, designer, container, cleaner, sharpener

More words from this list

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