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Spell Bee Word: Grapes


What does grapes mean?

Word: Grapes

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Grapes means small, round, juicy fruits that are green, purple or black and grow in bunches on a climbing plant.

How do you spell grapes?

Syllables: grapes

Tricky part: Grapes is said in one beat, so the silent e before the s is easy to forget. Children write graps.

Watch out for: graps, grapz

Memory tip: Grape has a magic e, just like cake: the e makes the a say its name. Then the s turns one grape into a bunch.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. sour grapes: pretending you never wanted something because you could not get it Example: "Kabir lost the race and said running was boring, but that was just sour grapes."

Grapes in a sentence

Example 1: Amma packed green grapes in my tiffin box.

Example 2: The grapes were so sweet that the whole bowl was empty in ten minutes.

Example 3: We saw rows of grapes hanging from wires at a farm near Nashik.

Fun Fact

Nashik in Maharashtra grows so many grapes that it is often called the grape capital of India.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) watermelan
b) strawbery
c) pinapple
d) grapes

Show answer

d) grapes. Pineapple needs its e, watermelon ends in on and strawberry has two r's.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

grappes

a) s
b) p
c) r
d) g

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b) p. The a says its name here, so the p stays single, as in tape.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

g_apes

a) h
b) l
c) r
d) w

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c) r. Grapes starts with gr, like green and grass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grapes grow in bunches on a climbing plant called a ____.

a) vine
b) cactus
c) fern
d) palm

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a) vine

2. When grapes are dried in the sun, they become ____.

a) cashews
b) walnuts
c) almonds
d) raisins

Show answer

d) raisins

Associated Words

banquetborebusinessloyaltyactress
competejusticeautumnharmfulsign

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