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[Spelling #2]
FOCUS: Correct spelling of words that are often misspelt and words that have alternative spellings.
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises:

1) Search for "price", "prise", and "prize" in the corpus; which of the three returns most hits?
price
prise
prize

2) Which of the three ("price", "prise", "prize") is closest in meaning to "cost"?
price
prise
prize

3) Search for "to price", "to prise", and "to prize"; are all three used as verbs in combination with "to"?
No, only "price" and "prise"
Yes, all three are used as verbs in combination with "to"
No, only "prise" and "prize"

4) Based on the foregoing search, which of the three ("price", "prise", "prize") is closest in meaning to "force"?
"price" and "prise"
"prise" and "prize"
"prize" and "price"

5) Based on the corpus results, which of the following is the correct spelling: (a) "a days work", (b) "a days' work"? or (c) "a day's work"
(a)
(b)
(c)

6) Based on the corpus results, which of the following is the correct spelling: (a) "in two days time", (b) "in two days' time" or (c) "in two day's time"?
(a)
(b)
(c)

7) Based on the corpus results, which of the following is the correct spelling: (a) "the childs' mind" (b) "the child's mind" or (c) both?
(a)
(b)
(c)

8) Based on the corpus results, which of the following is the correct spelling?
eighteen year old
eighteen-year-old
eighteen-years-old


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