Cortes Lessons

​Review past skills learned this school year,
such as, prefixes, suffixes, primary and secondary sources

​​Root word

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A root stem is a part of a word that has meaning, but cannot stand on its own. It is usually a Latin or Greek root, but not always.

Ex.) aud- hear

audible- able to be heard​

Root stem​

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A root word is part of a word that has its own meaning as a regular word.

Ex.) ​act- to move or do

actor- someone who acts​

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Suffixes go after a root.

Ex.) -ness: makes a word a noun (a person, place, thing, or idea)

-able: ​able to do something

​Suffixes

Prefixes go before a root.

Ex.) pre: before

post: after

un: not​

Prefixes

• ​Prefixes, a word part added to the start of a root word which will modify the meaning of that word.

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• ​Suffixes, a word part added to the end of a root word which modifies the meaning of that root.

• Ambi= both

• Aqua= water

• Aud= to hear

• bene= good

• dict= to say

• fract= to break

• srib/scribe= to write

• Pre= before, in front of (prefix, pretax, prequel)

• in/non/un/im= not (inadequate, nonfat, undo, impossible).

• dis= lack of, apart, not (disappear, disconnect)

• mis= wrong (misstep, miscommunicate)

• able/ible= able to (understandable, visible)

• ful= full of (graceful, beautiful)

• less= without (meaningless, pointless)

• ment= action/resulting state (resentment, retirement)

• ly= in a specified manner (quickly, carefully)

• Take a word such as unsuccessfully

• break it down into roots and affixes

• un-success-ful-ly

• we know that un- means not, -ful means ful, and -ly means in a certain way, so we can figure out that this means not in a way that is full of success.

• inaudible

• break it down into roots and affixes

• in-aud-ible

• not-to hear-able

• not able to be heard

• ambidextrous

• break it down into roots and affixes

• ambi-dext-(r)ous

• both-right hand-full of

• ability to use both hands skillfully

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