NAME: ______________________________________

FINDING THE BASE WORD

Learning goal: to see how words get put together by learning about BASE
WORDS, SUFFIXES & PREFIXES.

PREFIXES SUFFIXES
anti able/ible
co age
de al/ic
dis ancy/ance
extra ant
il ary/ery/ory
in ate/ite
inter ful
ir ian/ion/sion/tion
mis ible
non ing/s/ed
over ish
post ism
pre ist
pro ity
re ive
sub less
super ment
un ness
ology

Considering that
 prefixes are sometimes joined to the front of words eg un + happy = unhappy
 suffixes are sometimes joined to the ends of words eg effect + ive = effective
 sometimes more than one suffix is added: eg effect + ive + ly = effectively

When you take off prefixes and suffixes, you are left with the original word, the base word. It
has to be a REAL WORD, not part of a word.

TASK: Strip away the prefixes and suffixes to find the base word:

BASE WORD
untrue
magical
misunderstand
submarine
enjoyable
disagree
decode
misspell
disloyal
unfair
disrepair
triangle
colourful
blissful
delightful
angriness
blueness
postatomic
postpuberty
posttreatment
react
reaction
disrespect
nonsense
nonsensical
recreate
recreation