1. The Mysterious Sounds of Suffix -ed By Miss Quick

2. To answer that you need to know what a root or base word is! Simply put-a root or a base word is a word that has meaning A suffix- is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change how the word is used What is a suffix?

3. How does it change a baseword? It changes it to the past tense Read these words from The Revealers to find out what sound it makes? shadowed brutalized sauntered arced hoisted What do you know about –ed?

4. Take a look at these words from to see if you can figure out the rule: Melted burned banded Kissed smelled asked Peeled grilled filmed Seeded drafted licked Why? How? When? What the….?

5. Suffix –ed makes the sound: /d/ after a voiced sound /t/ after an unvoiced sound /ed/or /id/ after the letter t or d So What is the RULE ALREADY!!!

6. voiced=vibrates your vocal cords /l/, /m/, /n/,/b/ Thrilled, trimmed, pinned, rubbed Notice any relationship b/t the sound –ed makes and the sound the final letter in the baseword makes? Unvoiced=does not vibrate your vocal cords /s/, /k/, /p/, /f/ Kissed, asked, limped, golfed Notice any relationship b/t the sound –ed makes and the sound the final letter in the baseword makes? Voiced/Unvoiced! What does that mean?

7. Let’s take another look at the suffix –ed words from The Revealers: sprawled disoriented flushed veered sprained pantsed paralyzed bone-headed Suffix –ed practice

8. Prizes if you can remember!!! What is that RULE again?

9. hopeful safely smokeless careful timely pureness shapeless prideful fineness Ahh, the basewords all in SILENT E! What do you notice about all of these words:

10. paralyzed exaggerated brutalized scrutinized conceivable dissipated rampaging humiliating revoked persecuted cascading squabbling What do all of these words from The Revealers have in common?

11. paralyzed exaggerated brutalized paralyze exaggerate brutalize scrutinized conceivable dissipated scrutinize conceive dissipate rampaging humiliating revoked rampage humiliate revoke persecuted cascading squabbling persecute cascade squabble Here is a BIG hint!

12. Hey! What happened to the E when the suffix was added? Can you just drop it like that? paralyze + ed = paralyzed exaggerate + ed= exaggerated brutalize + ed= brutalized

13. hopeful safely smokeless How come the E isn’t dropped in these words? Let’s compare the words above to these and see if we can figure it out! scrutinized conceivable dissipated Wait a minute…those first words…

14. hope+ful=hopeful safe+ly=safely smoke+less=smokeless scrutinize+ed=scrutinized conceive+able=conceivable dissipate+ed=dissipated Still can’t figure it out?Let’s look at them this way:

15. If you haven’t figured it out yet, this will DEFINITELY help!

16. So the RULE is…. If the baseword ends in silent E, drop the E when adding a vowel suffix! ed, ing, able, er, y

17. But WHY, you ask? 1. How would you read the following words if you didn’t drop the E? shapeingglideertimeed serveedhideingtapeed 2. It doesn’t look right! 3. It goes against what we have learned about two vowels go walking… 4. It has to do with syllable division, but that is a Quick English Lesson for another time!

18. A little more practice

19. If you can remember this rule when I introduce the next Quick English lesson… There will be more prizes!!! And guess what?