Mit and Mis root words

Mit and Mis root words

The word mit comes from a latin word which means send.

Multiple Choice

I have a _____ to park my car here.

• Permis

• Permit

• Permmitt

• permission

Multiple Choice

When the bell rings, you can be ______

• dismissed

• dismitted

• dismised

• dismiss

Multiple Choice

Because of the hot weather, the tomatoes have had a slow ______

• demit

• demisse

• demise

• demission

Multiple Choice

can you please fix that light bulb? It is ____ hardly any light.

• emit

• emitting

• emission

• emiting

Mit means 'to send'

• The English root mit and its variant miss comes from a Latin word that means ‘to send.’

  
  

• When a lightbulb emits light, what does it do? It simply ‘sends it out.’ If you are out on a mission, you’ve been ‘sent’ to do a task. If, however, you’ve been dismissed from that task, you’ve been ‘sent away.’ If someone permits you to do something, you are ‘sent through’ to carry on.

Multiple Choice

using the information from the last pages,

a light bulb ______ light

• emits

• shows

• makes

• sparkles

Multiple Choice

If you are given a task, you are on a ______

• boat

• job

• mission

MIT changes to MIS

• mit and miss mean the same thing,

• notice what happens when you add suffixes to the following mit words.

• Permit becomes permission, emit becomes emission, commit, becomes commission,

• Don’t “miss” that mit becomes a miss!

Multiple Choice

which word can change from a MIT word to a MIS word?

• stole

• emit

• put

• comment

MIS words

• Every comic book villain tries his best to contribute wholeheartedly to the demise of his chosen superhero, that is, to his permanent ‘sending away,’ or ‘death;’ the words superhero and demise don’t go together very well. Dr. Octopus could never ‘send away’ Spiderman, at least on a permanent basis!

Multiple Choice

what is the meaning of DEMISE

• run away

• sent away

• fighting

• superhero

MIT words

• Have you ever omitted anything from a test? If so, you have ‘sent it away.’

• When you submit your answers, you ‘send them under’ for the inspection of the teacher.

• Hopefully all those tests that you have submitted as a student will allow you to be admitted, or ‘sent to’ a good college!

  
  

Multiple Choice

what does OMIT mean?

• tell the truth

• cheat on a test

• sent it away

Multiple Choice

What does SUBMIT mean?

• send it under

• mark the work

• Cheat on a test

Multiple Choice

which word can change from a MIT word to a MIS word?

• permit

• surmise

• introduce

• mitten

Multiple Choice

If you are given a secret task, you are on a ______

• boat

• job

• mission