Adding the Suffix

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Adding the Suffix ful

• What rules do we need to remember?

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When ful is added to a word as a suffix, only
one l is used

• artful
• beautiful
• delightful
• grateful
• helpful
• hopeful
• painful

• peaceful
• skilful
• successful
• thoughtful
• truthful
• wasteful
• wilful
• wonderful

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The same applies to other words, normally having
double l, when used as a prefix or a suffix

• Fulfil
• Skilful
• wilful

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What do these words mean?

• artful
• skilful
• wilful

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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.

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Did you spot them all? There were 8

• Successful
• Skilful
• Wonderful
• Painful
• Helpful
• Hopeful
• Peaceful
• Wasteful

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Turn y at the end of a word into i when you add
ful

• Beauty
• Beautiful
• Plenty
• Plentiful
• Fancy
• Fanciful
• Mercy
• Merciful
• Pity
• pitiful

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Now if ly to a word which already ends in l,
then the l is doubled

• See..
• beautifully
• hopefully
• successfully
• truthfully
• wonderfully
• skilfully
• and so on

• TASKCan you write a complex sentence that
  includes one or more of these words?