Hodge Podge
Spelling Patterns
Prefixes
Bases
Suffixes
100

The sounds made by the consonant digraphs <kn> and <gn>.

What is /n/?

100

The vowel digraph <ea> can make the sound /a/ true or false? If true, give an example.

What is true: steak, great, break?

100

The prefixes dis- and dif- mean the same thing. True or false.

What is true?

100

The base and meaning of that base in the word transformation.

What is form? Meaning to shape.

100

Which suffix means Having or being and usually forms an adjective?

What is -y

200

The meaning of the apostrophe in the word would’ve.

What is to replace the <ha> in the word have; a contraction.

200

The sound made by <eigh> and an example of a word with it.

What is /a/? (Neighbor, eight)

200

The prefix in the word postscript and the meaning of that prefix.

What is post-? Meaning after or later.

200

The base and meaning of the base in the word portable. 

What is <port>? Meaning to carry.

200

The suffix in the word virtuous and the meaning of that suffix.

What is -ous? Meaning full of or having.

300

What is the most common vowel sound in English and is it found in stressed or unstressed syllables?

schwa; unstressed syllables

300

The sound/s made by the vowel digraphs <eu> and <ew> and where in a base they would usually be found.

What is /u/? <eu> in beginning or middle and <ew> at end. (Feud, deuce, few, grew)

300

The prefix in the word interstate and its meaning.

What is inter-? Meaning between. 

300

The base and meaning of the base in the word tractor.

What is <tract>? Meaning to pull.

300

The suffix in the word proactive and the meaning of that suffix.

What is the suffix -ive? Meaning to cause or make.

400

How you would write that something belongs to more than one member of the Jones family?

What is Joneses’?

400

The sounds (2) usually made by the digraph <ei> and examples.

What are /e/ and /a/; ceiling, protein, veil, vein.

400

The prefix and meaning of that prefix in the word prolong.

What is pro-? Meaning forward, earlier, or before.

400

The base  and meaning of the base in the word prescription.

What is script meaning to write?

400

The final suffix and meaning of that suffix in the word translator.

What is -or? Meaning one who.

500

The sounds made by the consonant digraph <wr> and <gh>.

What are /r/ and /g/?

500

The sounds the vowel digraph <ue> usually makes.

What is /u/ and /oo/?

500

The prefix and meaning of that prefix in the word transportation.

What is trans, meaning across beyond or into a different place.

500

The base and meaning of the base spectator.

What is <spect> meaning to see, watch, or observe.

500

The suffix meaning able to or can do and is typically used with bound Latin bases. 

What is -ible?

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