What does passenger mean?
Word: Passenger
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Passenger means a person travelling in a car, bus, train, ship or plane who is not driving it or working on it.
Synonyms: traveller
How do you spell passenger?
Syllables: pas - sen - ger
Tricky part: The 'j' sound near the end is written g, not j. Writing passenjer is a common slip.
Watch out for: passenjer, passengar, passengr
Memory tip: Danger, stranger and passenger all write their 'j' sound with a g, then er.
Passenger in a sentence
Example 1: The taxi driver waited while his passenger counted out the fare in coins.
Example 2: Every passenger on the Shatabdi Express got a cup of tea and a newspaper.
Example 3: The ferry to Elephanta Island took on one last passenger before it left the jetty.
Fun Fact
The n in passenger was not there at first: the word came from the old French passager, and the n crept in later, as it did in messenger.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the word in which both blanks take the same letter:
a) fla__ngo
b) pa__enger
c) ga__en
d) pi__ic
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b) pa__enger. The traveller's word takes s in both blanks; flamingo, garden and picnic each need two different letters.
Spell Spies
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) passanger
b) messenger
c) challenger
d) scavenger
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a) passanger. Messenger, scavenger and challenger are correct; the traveller's word has e in its middle syllable too, as messenger does.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a person you might meet on a train?
a) rivdr
b) gnesrapse
c) draugt
d) notcduro
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b) gnesrapse. The nine letters make passenger; each of the other sets has a letter too many or too few for driver, guard or conductor.
Word Champ
Read the three statements and choose the correct option:
1. A conducter is the person who collects fares on a bus. 2. A passenger on a long-distance train usually carries a ticket. 3. A porter carries luggage at a railway station.
a) only 2 is correct
b) all three are correct
c) only 1 and 2 are correct
d) only 2 and 3 are correct
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d) only 2 and 3 are correct. Statement 1 has a misspelling: the fare collector is a conductor, ending in or. The other two are true.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which person on a city bus is not a passenger?
a) the driver
b) a grandmother visiting family
c) a schoolgirl going home
d) a man carrying shopping
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a) the driver
2. In a car, the 'passenger seat' usually means ___.
a) a small seat for a pet
b) the seat behind the steering wheel
c) a fold-down seat in the boot
d) the front seat next to the driver
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d) the front seat next to the driver
