Spelling With Suffixes
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English
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5th - 7th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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4 Slides • 8 Questions
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Suffixes ~age ~able ~ence ~ance
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Multiple Select
What words are derived (made from) the word different?
differ
difference
differs
differing
indifferent
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There are many other words like different that also end in ~ent and change to ~ence
absent, confident, evident, present, excellent, intelligent
absence, confidence, evidence, presence, excellence, intelligence
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There are also words that have the same sound as the ent/ence words, and behave the same way, but these words end in ~ant and change to ~ance
important, brilliant, distant, assistant, ignorant, elegant
importance, brilliance, distance, assistance, ignorance, elegance
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What do you do when adding these suffixes to a base word?
When adding the suffixes age, able, ence, ance to a word ending in a vowel, you drop the final vowel before adding the suffix. If the word doesn't end in a vowel, we simply add on the suffix.
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~age to the word store, what would the correct spelling be?
storage
storeage
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~age to the word carry, what would the correct spelling be? (Don't forget what happens when you have a word that ends in a consonant +y!)
carryage
carriage
carrage
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~able to the word renew, what would the correct spelling be?
reneable
renewable
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~able to the word size, what would the correct spelling be?
sizable
sizeable
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~ance or ~ence to the following word, what would the correct spelling be? annoy
annoyence
annoyance
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~ance or ~ence to the following word, what would the correct spelling be? correspond
correspondance
correspondence
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Multiple Choice
If you added the suffix ~ance or ~ence to the following word, what would the correct spelling be? defy
defiance
defience
Suffixes ~age ~able ~ence ~ance
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