What does sculpture mean?
Word: Sculpture
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Sculpture means a work of art made by carving or shaping stone, wood, clay or metal.
How do you spell sculpture?
Syllables: sculp - ture
Tricky part: The start looks harder than it sounds. The k sound is spelt with a c, straight after the s, so sk is wrong here.
Watch out for: skulpture, sculture
Memory tip: Think of a Sharp Chisel, S then C, cutting into the stone: that pair of letters opens the word.
Sculpture in a sentence
Example 1: The park near our house has a bronze sculpture of a dancing girl.
Example 2: Rohan spent a week on his clay sculpture for the school fair.
Example 3: We learnt about stone sculpture in our art lesson.
Fun Fact
Not every sculpture lasts. Artists such as Sudarsan Pattnaik of Odisha build huge figures of sand on the beach, knowing the tide will one day wash them away.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
sculpt____
a) uer
b) ur
c) ure
d) eur
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c) ure. The ending is spelt as it is in picture and mixture.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ptucsurel
a) puncture
b) structure
c) sculptor
d) sculpture
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d) sculpture. Keep the l and the p, add no o, and one option is left.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our neighbour carved a tall wooden sculpchure of an elephant for the village square.
a) neighbour
b) wooden
c) sculpchure
d) elephant
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c) sculpchure. The sound before the ending is made by a t here, not by ch.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) portrate
b) sculpture
c) musuem
d) exibition
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b) sculpture. Exhibition has an h after the x, museum has its e before the u, and portrait ends in ait.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these could be called a sculpture?
a) a horse carved from marble
b) a portrait painted in oils
c) a poem learnt by heart
d) a song sung by a choir
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a) a horse carved from marble
2. What does a sculpture usually have that a painting does not?
a) colours chosen with care
b) an artist who planned it
c) a title given by its maker
d) real depth you can walk around
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d) real depth you can walk around
