Select the correctly spelled sentence.

Correct — C. Two words are on trial, and every option changes one or both.

Restaurant keeps its French shape: rest + au + rant. The au sits in the middle and a plain a comes before the final nt.

Delicious ends -cious, the same ending as gracious, precious and suspicious — not -scious and not -sious.

Option (c) is the one sentence that prints both correctly.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  The resteraunt serves delicious meals. — Resteraunt swaps the vowels round: the word runs rest-au-rant, not rest-e-raunt. Its delicious is spelt correctly, so this sentence fails on one word alone.
• (b)
  The resturant serves deliscious meals. — Resturant drops the a after rest, and deliscious adds an s that the -cious ending never carries.
• (d)
  The resturaunt serves delisious meals. — Resturaunt misplaces both vowels and delisious writes the ending as -sious. English spells that sound -cious here.

A correctly-spelled-sentence item gives you one right sentence and three near-misses built from the same words.

Work it by difference, not by reading. Compare the options word by word, find the words that vary — here only restaurant and delicious — and test each against a rule you can state.

Restaurant is a French borrowing taken into English whole, which is why its vowels look wrong to an English ear. Delicious belongs to a large -cious family, and that ending is the rule to lean on.

Key facts

• Restaurant is spelt r-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t, with au in the middle.
• Delicious ends in -cious, like gracious, precious, spacious and suspicious.
• Conscious is spelt with -scious, which is a different ending from -cious.

Common traps

• Checking the first varying word only and stopping, when two words differ across the options.
• Saying rest-a-rant in your head and dropping the u.
• Choosing option (a) because its second word is right and the eye moves on.

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