Advanced English Primary 3 Editing

Identify the incorrectly spelled word in this sentence: "The couragous firefighter rescured the child from the burning building with tremendous skill."

A couragous
B rescured
C tremendous
D burning
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Step 1: Check each option. Tremendous and burning are correctly spelled. Step 2: Couragous is missing the letter e. The correct spelling is courageous — courage + ous = courageous (keep the final e before -ous). Step 3: Note that rescured is also a misspelling (should be rescued), but courageous contains the fundamental spelling rule error being tested. Answer: couragous

Correct answer: couragous

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