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Spell Bee Word: Sweep


What does sweep mean?

Word: Sweep

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Sweep means to clean a floor or the ground by clearing away dust and dirt. It can also mean to move quickly and smoothly across a place.

How do you spell sweep?

Syllables: sweep

Tricky part: The past form is the slip here: it is swept, not sweeped. The long sound in the middle shortens, and a t goes on the end.

Watch out for: sweeped, sweept

Memory tip: Its past form follows kept and slept: a t at the end, never ed.

Sweep in a sentence

Example 1: Every morning Amma sweeps the front step and then waters the plants.

Example 2: Can you sweep up the sand that came in on our shoes?

Example 3: A cold wind began to sweep across the hills of Shimla.

Fun Fact

A chimney sweep is a person whose job is cleaning soot out of chimneys, so here the word is also a noun for a worker.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

After the picnic, Kabir offered to sweap the leaves off the garden path.

a) garden
b) leaves
c) picnic
d) sweap

Show answer

d) sweap. The long sound in this cleaning word is written with two of the same vowel, as in keep and sleep.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) bucket
b) sweep
c) sponj
d) duster

Show answer

c) sponj. Sponge ends in nge, as orange does.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

sweep

a) spill
b) shake
c) stain
d) brush

Show answer

d) brush. To brush a floor and to sweep it both mean clearing dirt away with bristles.

Word Makeup

Choose the correct suffix to make a new word:

sweep

a) er
b) ur
c) or
d) ar

Show answer

a) er. A person or machine that does this job takes the same ending as cleaner and painter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tool would you most likely use to sweep a kitchen floor?

a) a kettle
b) a ladder
c) a broom
d) a spoon

Show answer

c) a broom

2. In 'Rain began to sweep over the fields', what is the rain doing?

a) falling in one spot
b) turning into ice
c) moving across quickly
d) drying up slowly

Show answer

c) moving across quickly

Associated Words

Words that start with swe: sweatshirt, sweater, swerve

More words from this list

agile, bravery, consist, embassy, greengrocer, know, opponent, reverse

Next steps

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