Sense and Nonsense
Answer Key


1. Someone ate my breakfast role. roll _

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

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

4. The ship sailed through the straight. strait _

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

6. We spotted a large heard of buffalo. _herd

7. The mourning sun streaked through my window. _morning

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

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

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

11. The king's rain lasted for twenty years. reign _

12. An eagle's clause are very sharp. claws _

13. This major vane carries blood to the heart. _vein

14. The rein came down in buckets. _rain

15. She's practicing her roll for the play. _role

16. The cruise finished construction on the building. crews _

17. We saw a grate movie yesterday! _great

18. Please stand together in a strait line. straight _

19. We herd that it was a great parade. _heard

20. He was in morning after his pet died. _mourning

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