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Spell Bee Word: Sunglasses


What does sunglasses mean?

Word: Sunglasses

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Sunglasses means dark glasses that you wear to protect your eyes from bright sunlight.

How do you spell sunglasses?

Syllables: sun - glass - es

Tricky part: There are four s's in all, and the two in the middle sit side by side. Children often drop one and write sunglases.

Watch out for: sunglases, sunglasess

Memory tip: Count the s's before you finish: this word needs four, with a pair in the middle.

Sunglasses in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma wears her sunglasses on her afternoon walk.

Example 2: I left my sunglasses on the back seat of the car.

Example 3: These sunglasses fold up small enough to fit in my pencil box.

Fun Fact

Long before modern sunglasses, Inuit people of the far north made snow goggles with thin slits to cut the glare from bright snow.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) sunglassis
b) sunglosses
c) sunglasses
d) sungalsses

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c) sunglasses. The vowel after the l is a short a, and the ending is es.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Meera put on her sunnglasses before the boat ride began.

a) sunnglasses
b) boat
c) ride
d) Meera

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a) sunnglasses. The n is not doubled in this word.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) sandels
b) umbrella
c) raincoat
d) sunglasses

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a) sandels. Sandals has an a after the d.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: sunglasses

a) slippers
b) curtains
c) shades
d) gloves

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c) shades. Shades is an informal word for sunglasses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do many cricket fielders wear sunglasses?

a) to keep their hair in place
b) to hear the umpire better
c) to see the ball clearly in strong light
d) to look taller on the field

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c) to see the ball clearly in strong light

2. Which of these words, like sunglasses, is always used in the plural?

a) sock
b) shirt
c) shoe
d) trousers

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d) trousers

Associated Words

Words that start with sun: sunflower, sunset, sunshine, Sunday

More words from this list

adventure, borrow, confidence, earring, goal, knead, numb, remove

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