Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Four, Lesson Four: Root Words


  1. string
  2. struggle
  3. strange
  4. stripe
  5. straight
  6. stroll
  7. entertainment
  8. southern
  9. buildings
  10. electricity
  1. energy
  2. community
  3. casinos
  4. temperature
  5. sunshine
  6. clouds
  7. storm
  8. system
  9. weather
  10. climate
Root Words

Take a look at the following list of words:


	wonderful		greatly		motionless

	oily			lately		sweetness

	electable		talking		greedily
	
Each of these words have suffixes (an affix at the end of the word).

If you get rid of the suffix, you have the root word. Here are the words from above stripped of their affixes.


	wonder			great		motion

	oil			late		sweet

	elect			talk		greed

These are the root words of the words shown in the first list.


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