1. What do the following words have in common?

EARN

ARMY

CHINA

HEARTH

2. What do the following words have in common?

BEND

SAGE

FLEX

WENT

EDIT

3. What do the following words have in common?

HAVE

HALL

AID

PEAR

TEAK

HINTS:

1. The answer involves dropping certain letters.

2. The answer involves replacing one letter with another.

3. Each word can be preceded by the same letter.

Answers:

1. Dropping the last letter of each word gives a body part.

2. In each word, the E can be changed to A to give new words:

BAND/SAGA/FLAX/WANT/ADIT

3. Each word can be preceded by S to give new words.

SHAVE/SHALL/SAID/SPEAR/STEAK