What does pavement mean?
Word: Pavement
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Pavement means the raised path beside a street, kept for people on foot.
How do you spell pavement?
Syllables: pave - ment
Tricky part: There is a silent e in the middle, straight after the v. Children often leave it out because they do not hear it.
Watch out for: pavment, paivment
Memory tip: Pave, paved and this word all belong to one family, and every member keeps the quiet e after the v.
Pavement in a sentence
Example 1: Please walk on the pavement when you go to the market.
Example 2: Ayaan drew a hopscotch grid on the pavement with chalk.
Example 3: The pavement outside the sweet shop was crowded with families on Saturday evening.
Fun Fact
In British English the pavement is the path beside a road, but in American English the word usually means the hard surface of the road itself.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
pave____
a) ment
b) mant
c) mont
d) mint
Show answer
a) ment. The ending ment, as in payment and movement, turns the doing word into a naming word.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tnepvame
a) movement
b) placement
c) payment
d) pavement
Show answer
d) pavement. Placement wants an l and a c, movement an o, and payment a y but no v.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) courtyad
b) pavement
c) balcony
d) staircase
Show answer
a) courtyad. Courtyard needs an r before the d, just like the word yard.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Ravi swept the dry leaves off the pavemment outside his gate.
a) outside
b) leaves
c) swept
d) pavemment
Show answer
d) pavemment. Only one m is needed before the last part of the word.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is often found on a pavement?
a) a ploughed field
b) a fishing boat
c) a cricket pitch
d) a bus stop sign
Show answer
d) a bus stop sign
2. Meera's mother told her to stay on the pavement. What was she asking her to do?
a) wait in the car
b) sit on the floor
c) keep off the road
d) stand on a chair
Show answer
c) keep off the road
