Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Thirteen, Lesson Three: Unit Review


  1. hard
  2. burden
  3. bird
  4. third
  5. sword
  6. root
  7. stem
  8. leave
  9. tube
  10. vascular
  1. another
  2. different
  3. because
  4. something
  5. important
  6. continent
  7. connect
  8. railroad
  9. golden
  10. spike
High Use Words

Almost certainly some words in the English language are used more often than others. Have you ever thought about which words are used the most often? It is generally believed that the following ten words are the most used words in the English language:


		the				of
		a				and
		to				in
		is				you
		it				that
	  	

Here are thirty more very frequently used words:


		for				was
		on				are
		as				with
		they				at
		be				this
		were				there
		which				their
		about				these
		would				other
		two				could
		than				people
		made				where
		know				through
		write				right
		because				does


Prefixes: Mono and Bi

The prefix mono means one or single. So adding the prefix mono to a word means that we are talking about one of the root word. Here are a few examples:


	monorail		monopoly		monotone

	monograph		monologue		monosyllabic
	
	monolith		monotony		monomania

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.


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