Lesson 27
Suffixes -ful, -ly, -ion
Spelling Focus: When adding -ful, -ly, or -ion to most base words, the base stays the same: slowly. To words ending in y, change y to i: beautiful. To words ending in e, drop the e when the suffix begins with a vowel: location.
- powerful
- peaceful
- beautiful *
- slowly
- safely
- daily
- suddenly
- carefully
- action
- location
- cheerful
- painful
- thoughtful
- weekly
- lately
- truthfully
- hopefully
- invention
- correction
- pollution
*indicates words that are most commonly misspelled by fourth graders in their writing.