Which sentences in the passage contain misspelled words? when i was a boy, i lived with my grandparents. they would take me fishing every summer. there was nothing like getting out in the open air and catching some fish; but sometimes, it was enough just be out there making an attempt. we would start out at around three in the morning and fish all day, until the sun went down. sometimes, not one single fish would make an appearrance. it didn’t matter because we were having fun. we made sure to always pack a big lunch in case we got hungry, which we usually did. but it wasn’t always that way. there had been a time when i was afraid to go out in a boat because i couldn’t swim. as i got older, however, things changed. as an adolescant, i met a new group of friends. they were a good group, and i began going fishing with them in the spring and fall. but i always kept summers for my grandparents.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt