Advanced English Primary 4 Editing

Identify the incorrectly spelled word in this sentence: "The archaeologist carefully excavted the ancient artefacts from the dig site over several weeks."

A excavted
B archaeologist
C artefacts
D ancient
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Step 1: Check each word. Archaeologist, artefacts, and ancient are all correctly spelled. Step 2: Excavted is the misspelling. The correct spelling is excavated — excav + ate + d (the -ate suffix must be retained before adding -d: excavate → excavated). Answer: excavted

Correct answer: excavted

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