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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 2: Root Ruins · Level 11
Suffixes Change the Job
Beautiful (adjective) → beautifully (adverb); -ness, -ment, -tion, -ity make nouns, -ful, -less, -ous, -able, -ive adjectives, -ize, -en, -ify verbs, -ly adverbs; which form fits the sentence.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 11
- A suffix is a part at the end of a word. It can change the word's meaning, and it can change the word's job in a sentence.
- Beauty is a noun: it names a thing. Add f u l, and beautiful is an adjective: a beautiful song. Add l y, and beautifully is an adverb: the choir sang beautifully.
- Ness, ment, tion, and ity make nouns: darkness, payment, creation, activity.
- Ful, ous, ive, and able make adjectives: powerful, famous, creative, washable. And ize, en, and ify make verbs: memorize, darken, simplify.
- So when a sentence has a blank, choose the form that does the right job. The sky began to darken. Not dark, not darkness: darken!
- Your turn! Sort these words by their job.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.L.V.2.b — Explain how the part of speech and the meaning of a root or root word changes based on the use of different affixes (e.g., beautiful as an adjective vs. beautifully as an adverb). (I)