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Objectives: This chapter will help you recognize and spell: Twenty common prefixes

Part Three, A Brief Guide to Important Word Skills Understanding Word Parts. Objectives: This chapter will help you recognize and spell: Twenty common prefixes Twenty common suffixes Twenty common roots. One way to improve your pronunciation and spelling

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Objectives: This chapter will help you recognize and spell: Twenty common prefixes

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  1. Part Three, A Brief Guide to Important Word Skills Understanding Word Parts • Objectives: • This chapter will help you recognize and spell: • Twenty common prefixes • Twenty common suffixes • Twenty common roots

  2. One way to improve your pronunciation and spelling is to increase your understanding of common word parts. Prefixes, suffixes and roots are building blocks in forming many English words. Increasing your awareness of basic words parts will help you pronounce many unfamiliar words, figure out their meanings, and remember how to spell them. Word parts are like part of a puzzle.

  3. Prefixes Prefix = a word part added to the BEGINNING of a word. The prefix changes the meaning of some words to their opposites. mis + understanding A prefix need not change a word to its opposite, but it will alter the meaning in some way. re + view

  4. Some common prefixes mono alone, one trans across, over, beyond dis apart, away pre before inter between, among sub under, below ex out mis badly, wrong con together, with post after, following, later

  5. Some common prefixes anti against pro before, for (in favor of) un not, reverse ad to, towards in not, within extra more than re again, back mal bad com with, together with de down, from

  6. Suffixes Suffix = a word part added to the END of the word. While a suffix may affect a word’s meaning slightly, it is more likely to affect how the word is used in a sentence. Very often, one of several suffixes can be added to a single word. Understanding common suffixes is especially helpful when you are learning new words. If you note the suffixes that can be added to a new word, you will learn not just a single word but perhaps three or four other forms of the word as well.

  7. Some common suffixes ion (tion) ship less able (ible) ant (ent) ence (ance) ness ify (fy) en ate ize (ise) ly age ious (ous) ist or (er) ment ism ful ery (ary)

  8. Roots Root = a basic word part to which prefixes, suffixes, or both are added. Some common roots at times change their spelling slightly, especially in the last one or two letters.

  9. Some common roots duc (duct) take, lead mit (miss) send, let go port carry voc (vok) call tract (trac) draw auto self path feeling cept (capt) take, seize dict (dic) say, tell, speak script (scrib) write

  10. Some common roots vers (vert) turn tang (tact) touch cess (ced) go, move, yield sist stand gress go pend (pens) hang, weigh psych mind vid (vis) see spec (spic) look graph write

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