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This activity is from Scholastic Spelling, Grade 5. Page 1 of 2


Sense and Nonsense

These silly sentences do not make sense--but you can fix that. Find the homophone in each sentence and circle it. Then write the correct word on the line. You'll now have "sentence sense."
Sense and Nonsense words


1. Someone ate my breakfast role. _

2. The ship Stardancer serves delicious food on its crews. _

3. I dropped three dimes through the sidewalk great. _

4. The ship sailed through the straight. _

5. You need to rewrite the first claws in that sentence. _

6. We spotted a large heard of buffalo. _

7. The mourning sun streaked through my window. _

8. The vein man kept looking in the mirror. _

9. To turn the horse, she pulled on one reign. _

10. The weather vein showed that the winds were coming from the west. _


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