What does greenhouse mean?
Word: Greenhouse
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Greenhouse means a glass building where tender plants are grown.
How do you spell greenhouse?
Syllables: green - house
Tricky part: This compound is written as one word, with no space and no hyphen. Pupils often leave a gap, because they read it as a description of a building.
Watch out for: green house, green-house
Memory tip: All the plants live together under one roof, so keep the word together too: one roof, one word, no gap.
Greenhouse in a sentence
Example 1: Priya's school built a small greenhouse so that pupils can grow ferns all year.
Example 2: On a frosty morning in Shimla, the air inside the greenhouse felt damp and pleasant.
Example 3: The orchids at the hill garden are raised in a greenhouse.
Fun Fact
One of the best-known greenhouses is the Temperate House at Kew Gardens in London. It opened in the 1860s and is known as the largest Victorian glasshouse still standing.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) wheelchare
b) sunflouer
c) erthquake
d) greenhouse
Show answer
d) greenhouse. Wheelchair ends with the word chair, earthquake begins with the word earth, and sunflower ends with the word flower.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
hnoegersue
a) greengrocer
b) lighthouse
c) warehouse
d) greenhouse
Show answer
d) greenhouse. Greengrocer has a c, lighthouse has an l and warehouse has a w, so only one word uses just these letters.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
gre_nho_se
a) e, w
b) i, u
c) a, u
d) e, u
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d) e, u. The long vowel in the first part doubles one letter, and the second part has the same ou as mouse and cloud.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Every morning my uncle waters the bean plants in his greenhous before leaving for the office.
a) greenhous
b) office
c) morning
d) plants
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a) greenhous. The word needs a silent e at the end.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why can tomatoes grow in a greenhouse during a cold winter?
a) cold wind blows through it
b) snow settles on the roof
c) tall trees shade the plants
d) sunlight heats the air inside
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d) sunlight heats the air inside
2. What are you most likely to see on the shelves of a greenhouse?
a) rows of lockers
b) stacks of tyres
c) trays of seedlings
d) boxes of chalk
Show answer
c) trays of seedlings
