Former Great Western Railway ‘Castle’ class 5043 ‘Earl of Mount Edgcumbe’ passes Padley Wood in June 2012. The locomotive was originally named Barbury Castle, after an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, but was renamed in September 1937. The historic Edgcumbe family seat is Mount Edgcumbe House near Plymouth, part of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in Cornwall just across the River Tamar. See the website Mount Edgcumbe for more information.
Introduction
A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?
Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.
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Practice
Spinners Find in Think and Speak
For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.
This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.
1 Diet. Dirt. Lord.
2 Dart. Riot. Tire.
3 Alert. Read. Road.
Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)
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