Word Study

Suffixes “-ly” and “-y”

Let’s start with a review:

• You’ve learned about suffixes before…

– Remember “-er” and “-est”?

Those are suffixes!

So……….What are suffixes?

A Suffix is:

A word part that is added to the END of a word and has a MEANING OF ITS OWN.

So, you remember “er” means more than.You remember that “est” means what?That’s right…Most!So, it can be added to the word big + est = to

change the meaning of big to the biggest of all!

I ate this biggest sundae!

There are LOTS of suffixes that we can attach to base words.

You’ve mastered 2: -er and –est.Ready for 2 more?

Alright, if you insist…

-ly

-ly by itself means “in a way that is.”

Remember when I got up at 4:30am on Saturday instead of 7:30am (yes, it’s my make-believe example last time? I got up earlier, right?

Well, you’d better believe I was…

Sleepy!

You know what I mean?

So, I hit my snooze button, and grumbled. I went back to sleep.

• Six minutes later at 4:36…

– I hit the snooze button again, and went back to sleep…

– At 4:42, the alarm rang again, and I got up. But you know how I got up?

I got up…

• In a way that was sleepy! I’m a bottom liner (unlike Grandma, who has the grandma version of say things). I want to say how I got up with one word. I’m going to attach a suffix to sleepy.

• Here goes:

• When my alarm went off, I got up, sleepily.

-ly

Adding –ly to my base word gives me a way to describe the way I’m doing things.

Would you like another example?

Remember the Birthday Remix Sundae from Coldstone Creamery?

Guess how I ate it.

Yes, I ate it hungrily.

By the way, what spelling rule did I use to create this word?

Yes, change the “y” to “i” and add –ly. (That could be a good rap)

Play my rap, then make your own suffix rap in Audacity!

Stop the slide show and add more examples of base words with the –ly

suffix below:

1. 2. 3. 4.

Save the slide show to your H: drive, then continue…

What does this sentence mean?

I eagerly went to see the new Star Trek movie.

(Okay, I wouldn’t eagerly go. I’d go because my husband and stepson, Devyn, dragged me there). But, for the example…it means…

I went to the new Star Trek movie in a way that was eager. I was “excited” to go!

Here’s the next suffix: -y-y by itself means made up of or like.

If I’m eating the new Volcano taco from Taco Bell, I might say that it is spicy.

That means it: Is made up of spice Tastes like spiceOkay, you know it was coming…what spelling rule did I use

to create the word spicy?

Spelling rule:

• Spice + y – e = spicy.

• What does snowy mean?

• Made up of snow, or like snow.

The lifeguard trudged along the foggy beach.What does foggy mean?

Foggy means:

Made up of fog or like fog. There was lots of fog on the beach that day.

What’s the spelling rule you would use to create the word, foggy?

Fog + g + y = Foggy.

• Try practice page 36 to practice some more with the suffixes –ly and –y.