Adding the Suffix ful What rules do we
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Adding the Suffix ‘ful’ What rules do we need to remember?
When ‘ful’ is added to a word as a suffix, only one l is used l l l l artful beautiful delightful grateful helpful hopeful painful l l l l peaceful skilful successful thoughtful truthful wasteful wilful wonderful
The same applies to other words, normally having double ‘l’, when used as a prefix or a suffix l. Fulfil l. Skilful lwilful
What do these words mean? lartful lskilful lwilful
Now get you wipe boards at the ready. Scan the text and write down all the – ful words you can spot Skilful Goal-keeper Scotland was successful in the European Cup on Saturday because of the skilful tactics of the goal keeper Bobby Martin. He played a wonderful game, although he received a painful knee injury in the first half. His team-mates were helpful and the crowd demonstrated that they were always hopeful of a win. The fans were peaceful and the other side were wasteful of the chances which came their way. Scotland will now meet Germany in the semi-final next Thursday.
Did you spot them all? There were 8 l l l l Successful Skilful Wonderful Painful Helpful Hopeful Peaceful Wasteful
Turn y at the end of a word into i when you add ful l l Beauty Beautiful Plenty Plentiful Fancy Fanciful Mercy Merciful Pity pitiful
Now if ly to a word which already ends in ‘l’, then the ‘l’ is doubled See. . l beautifully l hopefully l successfully l truthfully l wonderfully l skilfully and so on TASK: Can you write a complex sentence that includes one or more of these words?
