Language Arts Grade Five
Unit Thirteen, Lesson Four: Prefixes: Mono and Bi
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- burden
- bird
- third
- sword
- root
- stem
- leave
- tube
- vascular
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- another
- different
- because
- something
- important
- continent
- connect
- railroad
- golden
- spike
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Prefixes: Mono and Bi
The prefix bi means two. Here are some words which begin with "bi".
bimonthly biweekly bicentennial
bilingual bicycle biennial
biplane binomial bipolar
Not all words that begin with the letters contain the prefix bi. For
instance the words "biscuit", "biology", "bird", "birth", and "bikini"
definitely do not begin with the prefix bi eventhough they begin with the
letters "bi". Remember that a prefix has a special meaning which works in
combination with a root word.
Here are some meanings of works beginning with the prefix bi:
biweekly - twice a week
bilingual - knowing two languages
bicycle - a cycle with two tires
bicentenial - a two hundred year anniversary
bimonthly - twice a month
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