Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word from the given sentence . The resturant offers a wide variety of dishes.

Correct — C. The sentence prints resturant. The word is spelt restaurant — rest, then au, then rant.

Say it in full, res-tau-rant, and the dropped letter shows up: the vowel after rest is au, not a bare u.

dishes, variety and offers are each spelt correctly in the sentence, so the misspelling is the one the key marks → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  dishes — dishes is correct. A noun ending in -sh takes -es in the plural, so dish becomes dishes, as bush becomes bushes.
• (b)
  variety — variety is correct — the noun ending is -ety, as in society and anxiety, and a wide variety of is a standard phrase.
• (d)
  offers — offers is correct. The -s is the third-person singular ending, agreeing with the singular subject restaurant.

This item hides one misspelt word in an otherwise clean sentence and lists four of its words as options. The work is mechanical: check each option letter by letter, and do not judge the sentence.

restaurant is misspelt so often because speech hides a vowel. Many speakers say res-t-rant, so the au that the spelling keeps goes unheard, and then unwritten.

Spelling items reward a stock of words practised in writing, not recognised on sight. Write the word out when you meet it wrong.

Key facts

• restaurant is spelt r-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t, with au in the second syllable.
• The person who runs one is traditionally a restaurateur, spelt without the n of restaurant.
• Nouns ending in -sh, -ch, -s or -x take -es in the plural: dish becomes dishes.

Common traps

• Reading the sentence for sense and picking the word that looks unusual rather than checking spelling
• Marking offers because a singular subject carrying an -s verb feels wrong

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