Week 3 and 4 - Suffixes

When we add suffixes beginning with a vowel to words ending in a consonant plus e we drop the final e from the root word.

sense = sensible

taste = taster

guide = guidance

tickle = tickling

smile = smiler

hike = hiked

fame = famous

Remember that the suffix -y acts like a vowel.

slime = slimy

Rule breaker! 

The letter e in the word be is not dropped when we add the suffix

-ing.

be being

Week 1 and 2 - Suffixes

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that can be added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

Suffixes can begin with a vowel sound. Here are some examples:

-ing -ed -er -est -ible -able

-ion -ian -ant -ent -ous -y

A short vowel sound is usually (but not always) made by a single vowel letter. The letter y also acts like a vowel in words like myth and gym.

A long vowel sound is usually (but not always) made by two or more vowel letters and sometimes a consonant, put together. Most vowel sounds can have different spellings, for example, play, space, chain and eight.

This week, our root words will all end in a short vowel and two consonants.

 We aren't swapping, doubling or dropping anything in these words.

jump  = jumping

rust = rusting

risk = risking

rest = resting

This time, our root words will all end in a long vowel sound and one consonant.

shout - shouted

light = lighting

yawn = yawned

neat = neater

loud = loudest