Root word

Root words

​What are root words?

​Root words are the core pieces of any word. Root words are words on their own!

​Example: unchanging

​Change is the ROOT word. Change is a word on its own! Un and ing are not words on their own.

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Root woede are words on their own.

• True

• False

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Pick the root word

unreadable

• un

• read

• able

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Pick the root word!

unreliable

• un

• rely

• able

Using parts of words to understand meaning

unmoving​

​Prefix -un

​Root -move

​Suffix -ing

​Un means Move means ing making it

​not or won't to not be still present tense

​Now we can understand that unmoving means something or someone who will not move at this time.

He tried to push me but I'm unmoving.

​reinvented

​Prefix -re means root Invent means Suffix -ed means past

​to do again to create something

​Now we see reinvented means something was created again!

​I reinvented the light bulb to be more energy efficient!

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What is the prefix

unchanging

• un

• change

• ing

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What is the suffix?

• un

• change

• ing

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what is the root word?

unchanging

• un

• change

• ing

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What does unchanging mean?

• can be changed

• will not change

• was already changed

• Is changing now

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-ing in unchanging means the tense is...

• past

• present 

• future

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What is the prefix?

unknowingly

• un

• know

• ingly

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What is the suffix?

unknowingly

• un

• know

• ingly

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What is the root word?

unknowingly

• un

• know

• tingly

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What tense ?

Unknowingly

• past

• present

• future

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What does unknowingly mean?

• To not know what is happening now.

• To not know what already happened.

• To know what is happening now.

• To know what already happened.