What's the Root
What is the root word of flying?
fly
What is the past tense of shop?
shopped
What suffix do I add to a verb to make it present tense (usually)?
ing
ex. jumping, running, cooking, baking, lying, brushing, predicting
What type of word are the following:
Omar, Eiffel Tower, soccer, school, teacher
Noun
aka person, place or thing
what kind of word is attract?
verb
What is the root word of stillness?
still
What is the present tense of jump?
jumping
What prefix do I add to a word to mean before?
pre
ex. prefix, pre-covid, predict, prepare, preheat
What type of word are the following:
scoop, run, withdraw, pretend, pay, eat, live, laugh, love
verbs
Turn the word attract into an adjective.
Attractive
What is the root word of inexplainable?
explain
What is the past tense of leap?
leapt
What suffix can I add to a verb to make it an adjective? (hint: it means capable of)
able or ible
ex. adorable, flexible, doable, interchangeable
What type of words are the following:
blue, beautiful, lazy, fun, silly, goofy
adjectives
turn the word "attract" into a present tense verb
attracting
What is the root word of messiest?
mess
What is wrong with this sentence:
I go to the store to buy eggs, but I bought waffles instead.
go should be went or bought should be buy
What is one prefix that means "not?" I can think of three
#1 "a"
ex. atypical, asymmetrical, aphobic
#2 "non"
nonsense, nonexistent, nonrefundable
#3 "un" or "in"
inflexible, unenjoyable
What type of words are the following:
and, but, so, because, since, although, however
conjunctions
turn the word "attract" into an adverb
Attractively
What is the root word of counter-productive?
product
When would I put S at the end of a verb? For example: goes, jumps, eats, cooks, bakes
When talking in third person about one person or thing. Ex. He, She, It, Taliya, Raeven, Laith, JC, the chair, the desk, the hippo, the tiger
When I add a suffix, like "ing" or "ed" to a verb, how do I know whether I should double the consonant first.
Ex. Bating vs Batting
Ex. Batted vs Bated
A short vowel sound gets a double consonant
A long vowel sound (says its name) drops the last letter and gets the suffix directly
Ex. Put = Putting
Ex. Poke = Poking
What type of words are the following:
slowly, sophisticatedly, curiously, yesterday
adverbs
Turn the word "attractive" into a noun
attractivity - quality of being attractive
attractiveness - degree of how much something is attractive
attraction - refers to the power or feeling of being attracted