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Adding the Suffix ‘ ful ’. What rules do we need to remember?. artful beautiful delightful grateful helpful hopeful painful. peaceful skilful successful thoughtful truthful wasteful wilful wonderful. When ‘ful’ is added to a word as a suffix, only one l is used.
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Adding the Suffix ‘ful’ What rules do we need to remember?
artful beautiful delightful grateful helpful hopeful painful peaceful skilful successful thoughtful truthful wasteful wilful wonderful When ‘ful’ is added to a word as a suffix, only one l is used
The same applies to other words, normally having double ‘l’, when used as a prefix or a suffix • Fulfil • Skilful • wilful
What do these words mean? • artful • skilful • wilful
Skilful Goal-keeper Scotland was successful in the European Cup on Saturday because of the skilful tactics of the goal keeper Bobby Martin. He played a wonderful game, although he received a painful knee injury in the first half. His team-mates were helpful and the crowd demonstrated that they were always hopeful of a win. The fans were peaceful and the other side were wasteful of the chances which came their way. Scotland will now meet Germany in the semi-final next Thursday. Now get you wipe boards at the ready. Scan the text and write down all the –ful words you can spot
Did you spot them all? There were 8 • Successful • Skilful • Wonderful • Painful • Helpful • Hopeful • Peaceful • Wasteful
Turn y at the end of a word into i when you add ful • Beauty • Beautiful • Plenty • Plentiful • Fancy • Fanciful • Mercy • Merciful • Pity • pitiful
See.. beautifully hopefully successfully truthfully wonderfully skilfully and so on TASK:Can you write a complex sentence that includes one or more of these words? Now if ly to a word which already ends in ‘l’, then the ‘l’ is doubled