Unit 4: Parts of Language

Unit 4: Parts of Language

multi-, semi-, -less, yoo sound, ending j sound, etymology: Greek names

Multiple Choice

When a word is broken down into the parts, what is the part before the stem of a word called?

• prefix

• suffix

• root word

Multiple Choice

When a word is broken down into the parts, what is the part after the stem of a word called?

• prefix

• suffix

• root word

Multiple Choice

What is another word for stem word?

• prefix

• suffix

• root word

Dis-trust-ful

Dis=prefix (apart)

Trust=root word/stem word (bond)

Ful=suffix (full of)

MEANING=Full of a bond that is apart.

Multi (prefix)

Definition: More than one

Multiple Select

Which words have a multi-prefix?

• multimillionaire

• multicultural

• manager

• mortician

• multimedia

Open Ended

What does the word multimillionaire mean? Think about it as the prefix plus the root word. Multi+millionaire.

Semi (prefix)

Definition: meaning "half."

Multiple Choice

The chocolate was ____________.

• Semicircle

• Semisweet

• Semiautomatic

• Semitropical

Multiple Choice

If something is a semicircle, it is an oval.

• True

• False

-Less (suffix)

Definition: meaning without

Ending "J" Sound

In English, words that end with the j sound are spelled with one of two letter patterns: dge or ge.

When the j sound directly follows a short vowel in a one-syllable word, it is spelled dge, as in

fudge. Otherwise, it is spelled with the letters ge, as in engage.

My family spends a week each winter at a ski (lodge, loge) in

Vermont.

The answer is "lodge" because you add the -dge when it follows a vowel and when it is a one-syllable word, like lodge.

Beginning this fall, Coach Irizarry will (manage, manadge) the soccer

team.

The answer is manage because you are adding -ge to a multiple syllable word.

Multiple Choice

Beginning this fall, Coach Irizarry will (manage, manadge) the soccer

team.

• manage

• manadge

Multiple Choice

The losing team may say they do not hold a gru____, but it is clear that they do.

• -dge

• -ge

The "Yoo" Sound

The yoo sound is usually spelled in one of these four ways:

• the letter u on its own: utility, music

• the pattern u–e (u-consonant-e): refuse, cutest

• the pattern ue: cue, tissue

• the pattern ew: nephew, dew

Note that the last two patterns (ue and ew) are usually found at the ends of words.

After the disturbances, the town council voted in favor of a ten-o’clock

(curfew, curfue) for teenagers under the age of eighteen.

The correct answer is curfew.

Because of the professor’s (uenique, unique) perspective on social

psychology, many students find his classes fascinating.

The correct answer is unique.

Multiple Choice

Which rule does the underlined rule follow: The rays of the setting sun cast a soft pinkish hue upon the

west side of the mountains.

• the letter u on its own

• the pattern u-e

• the pattern u-consonant-e

• the pattern ew

Multiple Choice

Which rule does the underlined rule follow: We inhaled the heavenly perfume of the blooming roses.

• the letter u on its own

• the pattern u-e

• the pattern u-consonant-e

• the pattern ew

Multiple Choice

Which rule does the underlined rule follow: We inhaled the heavenly perfume of the blooming roses.

• u

• ue

• ew

Etymology: Greek Names

A word’s origins are called its etymology. Many English words come from Greek mythology.

For example, the word chronology comes from Kronos, the god of time, who represented the

changing of time. Kronos gave us such words as synchronize (“to cause things to occur at the

same time”) and chronometer (“a device for telling precise time”).

Multiple Choice

This entry shows a word that comes from a name in

Greek mythology. Using the information in the list, match the word to its modern

meaning.

Tantalize: In the afterlife, Tantalos was punished for his crimes by being forced to stand in

chin-deep water beneath branches filled with fruit, neither of which he could reach to drink or

eat.

• a. toilsome and unable to ever be completed

• b. showing tremendous strength or great courage

• c. shining with changing colors when viewed from different angles

• d. to tease by showing something desirable but unobtainable

Multiple Choice

This entry shows a word that comes from a name in

Greek mythology. Using the information in the list, match the word to its modern

meaning.

Sisyphean: Sisyphus, king of Corinth, was condemned to the eternal task of rolling a large

stone to the top of a hill, only to have it roll back down every time.

• a. toilsome and unable to ever be completed

• b. showing tremendous strength or great courage

• c. shining with changing colors when viewed from different angles

• d. to tease by showing something desirable but unobtainable

Multiple Choice

This entry shows a word that comes from a name in

Greek mythology. Using the information in the list, match the word to its modern

meaning.

herculean: The Greek hero Hercules was known for his great strength. After he was tricked

into killing his own family, Hercules completed twelve seemingly impossible labors in order to

have his guilt removed.

• a. toilsome and unable to ever be completed

• b. showing tremendous strength or great courage

• c. shining with changing colors when viewed from different angles

• d. to tease by showing something desirable but unobtainable

Multiple Choice

This entry shows a word that comes from a name in

Greek mythology. Using the information in the list, match the word to its modern

meaning.

iridescent: Iris, the messenger of the Olympian gods, was visibly represented by the

rainbow, which was seen as a heavenly messenger descending to Earth.

• a. toilsome and unable to ever be completed

• b. showing tremendous strength or great courage

• c. shining with changing colors when viewed from different angles

• d. to tease by showing something desirable but unobtainable

Let's Do Some Final Practice!!!

Multiple Choice

Read the following excerpt from the Part 1 of the Odyssey.

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that man skilled in all ways of contending. . . .Of these adventures, Muse, daughter of Zeus, tell us in our time, lift the great song again.

What is the meaning of the English word muse that is related to Greek mythology?

• A. a high-ranking official

• B. a source of inspiration

• C.an exceptional warrior

• D.an undaunted adventurer

Multiple Select

Which of the following common spelling endings has a j sound?

• -gre

• -gar

• -dge

• -ge

Multiple Choice

Read these lines from Part 1 of the Odyssey.

In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mysteryto the immortal gods, they neither plow . . .

Which of the words from these lines uses a common spelling of the j ending sound?

• ignorance

• fruitage

• gods

• none of the above

Open Ended

Using what you know about the prefix multi-, what is most likely the definition for the word multicultural?

Multiple Choice

Thinking about the prefix semi-, a semicircle would be what shape?

• Half a circle

• A whole circle

• A part of a circle

• Two circles

Multiple Select

Which of the following spelling patterns often creates the yoo sound?

• the middle pattern yeu

• the end pattern ew

• the u letter

• the middle pattern uew

Multiple Choice

Read these lines from Part 2 of the Odyssey.

. . . She made him / taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair / in curls like petals of wild hyacinth / but all red-golden. Think of gold infused / on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art / Hephaestus taught him, or Athena: one / whose work moves to delight . . .

Which word from the lines includes a spelling pattern that makes the yoo sound?

• too

• curls

• infused

• whose

Open Ended

Bonus Point: Write a sentence about dancing hamsters using the "yoo" sound, the ending "j", or the prefixes multi-, semi.

Multiple Choice

Read the following excerpt from the Part 1 of the Odyssey.

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that man skilled in all ways of contending. . . .Of these adventures, Muse, daughter of Zeus, tell us in our time, lift the great song again.

What is the meaning of the English word muse that is related to Greek mythology?

• A. a high-ranking official

• B. a source of inspiration

• C.an exceptional warrior

• D.an undaunted adventurer