Which of the following sentences contains a spelling error that a spell-check feature would most likely flag?

• A. The committee is open to discussing one more time the impact of the change.
• B. I was very happy with last weeks results.
• C. After play with his car, he change it's battery
• D. The boy was very happy to see his bare.

Answer: (A)

Spell-checkers catch problems where a word is not formed correctly or a punctuation mark is missing that changes the word’s meaning. In the sentence about last weeks results, the intended meaning is possessive—the results of the week. The correct form is last week’s results, with an apostrophe. Without that apostrophe, the sentence looks like a simple plural mistake, which is exactly the kind of thing a spell-checker would flag as a punctuation/leniency error.

The other sentences don’t present a straightforward spelling problem. The first sentence uses correctly spelled words, though its phrasing is a bit awkward. The third sentence has several grammar issues rather than spelling errors, including tense and pronoun form, and the contraction it’s is spelled correctly but used incorrectly here. The last sentence uses valid words but the meaning is off, which is a vocabulary/context issue, not a spelling error.