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PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES What are they? Tuesday, February 14, 2012 WORDS, WORDS, WORDS! Base word-- a complete word that can stand alone Tuesday, February 14, 2012 ROOT In our last lesson, we learned that a ROOT was a word part that contains the core meaning of a word. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 PREFIX A group of letters that appears at the beginning of a root or base word. Not all words have these... Tuesday, February 14, 2012 PREFIX EXAMPLE disarm What does the prefix mean? Can you guess what the word meaning might be? Tuesday, February 14, 2012 SUFFIX A Word part that appears at the end of a root word or base word to form a new word. Not every word has one of these... Tuesday, February 14, 2012 NOUN AND VERB SUFFIXES Check out the list of suffixes that form nouns or verbs. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 NOUN SUFFIX EXAMPLE tuberculosis What does the suffix mean? What is the meaning of the word? Tuesday, February 14, 2012 ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB SUFFIXES These are also added to the end of a word to make a word with different meanings. They form adjectives and adverbs. Check out this list. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 ADJECTIVE/ADVERB SUFFIX EXAMPLE conclusive What does the suffix mean? What does the word mean? Tuesday, February 14, 2012 YOUR TURN! Look at your new handout. Fill out the chart according to what you know about prefixes and suffixes. You may use all of your handouts or notes. Tuesday, February 14, 2012