SepARATe has a rat in the middle.
Separate or seperate
This word has “a rat” in it! See it? separate. (Scary! But don’t worry. He’s just a drawing.)
Sometimes “a rat” is in a verb.
Examples:
- She spent the entire day separating the potatoes by size.
- remember “a rat”
- verb in the present progressive (“-ing”) form
- Trying to separate two fighting cats is not safe.
- remember “a rat”
- verb in the infinitive (“to separate”) form
Other times it is in an adjective.
- Their mother put them in separate rooms when they fought.
- remember “a rat”
- adjective modifying “rooms”
- Their teacher gave them separate assignments over the holiday, one for each day.
- remember “a rat”
- adjective modifying “assignments”
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