Missing three letters
A word in capitals has three letters next to each other taken out, and those three letters spell a word. The sentence tells you what the whole word should be.
What the question looks like
The CHEN smelt of fresh bread.
How Thena would solve it
Read the sentence and think what word belongs there: a room that smells of bread is a kitchen.
Find the letters that turn CHEN into KITCHEN.
KITCHEN
K, I and T sit together and spell KIT, so KIT is the answer.
Answer: KIT
The usual mistakes
Fitting letters without reading the sentence
Several words can sometimes be made: only one makes sense.
Taking letters that aren’t together
The three missing letters sit next to each other.
Letters that don’t spell a word
The three letters always spell a word of their own.
Try ten
Ten missing three letters questions
A new set every time, marked when you finish.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
Questions parents ask
How do you answer Missing three letters questions?
Read the sentence and think what word belongs there. Then find the three letters next to each other that turn the capitals into it. They spell a word of their own.
More in making words
- Hidden wordsA four-letter word across two words in a sentence.
- Compound wordsOne word from each group, joined into a new one.
- Complete the third pairThe same change made to a third word.
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