

WORD STUDY 1 09 



player, plays; gay, gayer, gayest. Word building with 

 words of this kind is given constant attention throughout 

 the year. 



During this same month word building with ing is com- 

 menced. The first words taken are those in which the 

 syllable is simply added, as in play, playing ; 



The the next list is of words like come, coming, 



Suffix 



Ing where final e is dropped; finally, the words 



used are like stop, stopping, where the final 

 consonant is doubled. Having already learned that final e 

 is dropped on adding the suffix ing, the pupils now learn 

 that it is dropped upon adding any suffix beginning with 

 a vowel; as, bake, baking, baker, baked, bakes. That is, 

 as the little folks say, " Two sisters do not stand together 

 in these places, they want a brother between them." A 

 great deal of attention is also given to words doubling the 

 final consonant; as, fit, fitting, fitted, fitter. Words of this 

 class are the most difficult of all to master ; they need much 

 patient drilling for more than one year with the majority 

 of pupils. 



Some very simple prefixes and suffixes are studied to 

 show the meaning which they give to words and to impress 



their spelling. The ones usually selected 



Prefixes ar ^ ^ joyful ; less, homeless ; un, unkind ; 



Suffixes 



R 00 t s a, ashore. There is easy word building 



with roots. Some simple word, as truth, is 

 taken from a reading lesson and derivatives are called for. 

 The pupils enjoy this work greatly, and lists are quickly 

 made up. They readily give such words as truthful, truth- 

 fully, truthfulness; the negative forms are given with just 

 as much ease, untruth, untruthfully, untruthful, untruthful- 



