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Spell Bee Word: Son


What does son mean?

Word: Son

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Son means a boy or man, when we talk about him as the child of his mother and father.

Sounds like: sun (the star that gives the earth light and heat)

How do you spell son?

Syllables: son

Tricky part: Son sounds just like sun, but it is spelt with an o.

Watch out for: soun, sunne

Memory tip: Son and sun sound the same. A son is a boy, and boy has an o, so son gets the o.

Son in a sentence

Example 1: Mr Rao took his son to the fair.

Example 2: The farmer's son helps in the fields.

Example 3: Aunty has one son, who is in Class 3.

Fun Fact

Many family names began as son of: Johnson once meant John's son.

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Word Connection

Select the feminine form of the word:

son

a) mother
b) daughter
c) sister
d) niece

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b) daughter. A daughter is a girl child of her parents, as a son is a boy child.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sson
b) sonne
c) sonn
d) son

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d) son. Son is only three letters, with one n at the end.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

great-grandfather, grandfather, father, ____

a) son
b) nephew
c) uncle
d) brother

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a) son. Each person is the child of the one before, so the father's boy comes next.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which sentence uses son correctly?

a) Ravi is the son of Mr and Mrs Iyer.
b) The son is shining brightly today.
c) We sat out in the son all afternoon.
d) The son set slowly behind the hills.

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a) Ravi is the son of Mr and Mrs Iyer.

2. Your uncle's son is your ____.

a) nephew
b) brother
c) grandson
d) cousin

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d) cousin

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with so: sofa, soldier, solid

More words from this list

understand, avocado, camel, dance, flat, hyena, neck, recite

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