Mrs. Mora teaches us how large words can be easily decoded by understanding word parts. Learn strategies to help decode words using prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Mora teaches us how large words, like ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. AMELIA: Hello. My name's Amelia. In this video, we will look at how to take words you already know and ...

There are spelling rules to follow when you add prefixes to words. Watch this clip to learn to learn more about these rules and see some examples. Root words are the basic words that are used to form ...

Prefixes are a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the start. The prefix un- usually means 'not', so the new word means the opposite of the original. In this ...

If something is “disheveled” or “unkempt,” could it also be “heveled” or “kempt”? So asked Ruth Penticoff of New Milford, Ill. And my wife threw in “disgruntled” and “gruntled.” So let’s explore the ...

They are inconspicuous and usually very short – but they can have a great effect: In the German language, prefixes sometimes succeed in completely changing the meaning of a word. If you read carefully ...

The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. This is the definition—the only definition—that you’ll find in Merriam-Webster, ...

Sometimes I think the people behind punctuation rules are co-conspirators in a plot to drive us insane. Then I realize they could be coconspirators. That’s when I know their plot has succeeded. Of all ...