Minimal pair Quiz: [iy] vs. [i]
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The necklace has many red ___________.
a. beads
b. bids
Answer
a
My father-in-law has a lot of money. He is very _________.
a. reach
b. rich
Answer
b
My grandmother has broken her _______.
a. heap
b. hip
Answer
b
That student is brilliant. He is a _______ at mathematics.
a. wheeze
b. whiz
Answer
b
That student isn't very smart. He is a ______.
a. tweet
b. twit
Answer
b
These shoes don't _______ my ________.
a. feet, fit
b. fit, feet
Answer
b
The bathtub has a very bad _______.
a. leak
b. lick
Answer
a
It's your turn to ________ the cards.
a. deal
b. dill
Answer
a
New York has had a lot of ______ and snow this winter.
a. sleet
b. slit
Answer
a
Her face is as soft as a ________.
a. peach
b. pitch
Answer
a
There are 52 _______ in a year.
a. weeks
b. wicks
Answer
a
______ milk has fewer calories that whole milk.
a. scheme
b. skim
Answer
b
Wipe that silly _____ off of your face.
a. green
b. grin
Answer
b
They had a huge meal. It was a _______ fit for a king.
a. feast
b. fist
Answer
a
The army drove ______ through the jungle.
a. jeeps
b. gyps
Answer
a
I must pay my lab ________ before I can do an experiment.
a. fees
b. fizz
Answer
a
The music has a fast ______.
a. beat
b. bit
Answer
a
She cannot ________ that heavy box.
a. leafed
b. lift
Answer
b
It is a ___________ to _________.
a. seen, steal
b. sin, still
c. seen, still
d. sin, steal
Answer
d
I ________ very _________. I need to take a ________.
a. feel, eel, peel
b. fill, ill, pill
c. feel, ill, pill
d. fill, eel, peal
Answer
c
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