What does representative mean?
Word: Representative
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Representative means a person chosen to speak or act for a group of people, such as a class, a company or the voters of an area.
Synonyms: delegate, spokesperson, agent
How do you spell representative?
Syllables: rep - re - sen - ta - tive
Tricky part: The first three vowels are all e: rep-re-sen. Students often slip an a or an i into one of them.
Watch out for: represantative, reprisentative, representive
Memory tip: Represent has an e in each of its first three syllables: rep, re, sen. Keep all three e's and say the whole word slowly.
Representative in a sentence
Example 1: Our school sent two representatives to the inter-school science meet.
Example 2: A sales representative visited the shop with samples of new notebooks.
Example 3: Voters elect a representative to speak for them in the state assembly.
Fun Fact
The House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, has 650 elected seats, each held by a representative of one constituency.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) goverment
b) constituensy
c) representative
d) parliment
Show answer
c) representative. Government and parliament have each lost a letter here, and constituency takes cy, not sy.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
vtaeseprtenire
a) representation
b) preventative
c) presentation
d) representative
Show answer
d) representative. Representation and presentation end in tion, and preventative needs a second v.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Each section chose one represenative to speak for it at the student council meeting.
a) meeting
b) represenative
c) council
d) section
Show answer
b) represenative. Say the t you hear in the middle: rep-re-sen-ta-tive.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which person is acting as a representative?
a) a parent dropping a child at the school gate
b) a student reading a book alone in the library
c) a class monitor speaking for the class at a meeting
d) a teacher marking test papers after school
Show answer
c) a class monitor speaking for the class at a meeting
2. A sales representative mainly ____.
a) repairs a company's machines
b) visits shops to sell a company's goods
c) designs a company's adverts
d) keeps the accounts of a company
Show answer
b) visits shops to sell a company's goods
