-Fixes, -Nyms,-Phones, and -Graphs,

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• -Fixes, -Nyms,-Phones, and -Graphs,

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Letter Groups

• Homos Greek meaning for similar or alike
• Fixus Latin meaning for to fasten
• Phone Greek for voice or sound
• Graphon Greek for something written

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Prefixes

• Prefixes are added to the beginning of a base
  word. They change the meaning of the base word.
• Un happy unhappy
• Re do redo

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Prefixes

• The prefix un means not or the opposite of.
• Uncomfortable means not comfortable.
• Unpack means the opposite of pack.
• What does unclear mean?

• The prefix re means again.
• Reread means to read again.
• Rewrite means to write again.
• What does reheat mean?

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PrefixesAdd a prefix to the beginning of each
word to make a new word. Draw a line form the
word to its meaning.

• ____do
• ____happy
• ____clear
• ____read
• ____pack

• The opposite of pack
• Do again
• Opposite of clear
• Read again
• Not happy

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Suffixes

• The suffix ly means in a certain way.
• Quickly means in a quick way.
• Loudly means in a loud way.
• What does suddenly mean?

• The suffix ful means full of.
• Colorful means full of color.
• Playful means full of play.
• What does thankful mean?

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SuffixesAdd a suffix to the end of each base
word. Draw a line to its new meaning.

• Loud____
• Color____
• Wonder____
• Sudden_____
• Play____

• In a loud way
• Full of play
• Full of wonder
• In a sudden way
• Full of color

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Homonyms

• Homonyms are different words that are pronounced
  the same
• Tale tail
• To two too
• They may or may not have different spelling.
• Homonyms create ambiguity
• Ill meet you by the bank, in front of the
  automated teller machine.
• Ill meet you by the bank. We can go fishing.

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Homographs

• Homographs are words that are spelled the same
  but have different meanings
• Dove the bird
• Dove the past tense of dive
• Bear the verb
• Bear the animal

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Homophones

• Homophones are words that sound alike but they
  have different meanings and different spellings.
• Won and One
• There, Theyre Their
• Too, Two, and To

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Homophones
See
Sea
Meet
Meat
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Homophones
Blew
Blue
Pair
Pear
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Homographs

• Homographs are words that may or may not sound
  alike but have the same spelling but a different
  meaning.
• Read and Read
• Tire and Tire
• Tone and Tone

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Homographs
Bow
Bow
Scale
Scale
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Homographs
Tear
Tear
Row
Row
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Which ones arehomophones?
Hear
Toe
New
Pit
Bear
Can
Saw
Right
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Which ones arehomographs?
Hear
Toe
New
Pit
Bear
Can
Saw
Right
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Synonyms

• Words that sound different but have the same (or
  almost the same) meaning are synonyms.
• Apathetic, phlegmatic, passive, sluggish,
  indifferent
• Sofa, couch
• Degree of similarity depends on number of
  semantic properties that two words share

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Formation of antonyms

• Un-
• Non-
• In-
• Dis-
• Mis-

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Antonyms

• Words that are opposite in meaning are antonyms
• Beautiful ugly (not beautiful)
• Big small, hot cold
• Gradable properties
• Tiny, small, medium, large, huge, gigantic
• not tiny doesnt mean gigantic.