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The Mysterious Sounds of Suffix - ed. By Miss Quick. What is a suffix?. To answer that you need to know what a root or base word is! Simply put-a root or a base word is a word that has meaning
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The Mysterious Sounds of Suffix -ed By Miss Quick
What is a suffix? • To answer that you need to know what a root or base word is! • Simply put-a root or a base word is a word that has meaning • A suffix- is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change how the word is used
What do you know about –ed? • How does it change a baseword? • It changes it to the past tense • Read these words from The Revealers to find out what sound it makes? shadowed brutalized sauntered arced hoisted
Why? How? When? What the….? • Take a look at these words from to see if you can figure out the rule: • Melted burned banded • Kissed smelled asked • Peeled grilled filmed • Seeded drafted licked
So What is the RULE ALREADY!!! • Suffix –ed makes the sound: • /d/ after a voiced sound • /t/ after an unvoiced sound • /ed/or /id/ after the letter t or d
Voiced/Unvoiced! What does that mean? • voiced=vibrates your vocal cords • /l/, /m/, /n/,/b/ • Thrilled, trimmed, pinned, rubbed • Notice any relationship b/t the sound –ed makes and the sound the final letter in the baseword makes? • Unvoiced=does not vibrate your vocal cords • /s/, /k/, /p/, /f/ • Kissed, asked, limped, golfed • Notice any relationship b/t the sound –ed makes and the sound the final letter in the baseword makes?
Suffix –ed practice • Let’s take another look at the suffix –ed words from The Revealers: sprawled disoriented flushed veered sprained pantsed paralyzed bone-headed
What is that RULE again? Prizes if you can remember!!!