Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming. Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. AMELIA: Hello. My name's Amelia. In this video, we will look at how to take words you already know and ...

If something is “disheveled” or “unkempt,” could it also be “heveled” or “kempt”? So asked Ruth Penticoff of New Milford, Ill. And my wife threw in “disgruntled” and “gruntled.” So let’s explore the ...

There are spelling rules to follow when you add prefixes to words. Watch this clip to learn more about these rules and see some examples. Remember: 'Root words' are the basic words that are used to ...

Prefixes are a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the start. The prefix un- usually means 'not', so the new word means the opposite of the original. In this ...

The English language is full of terms that would be nowhere without their prefixes. You can be nonplussed, but can you be plussed? You can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but what about being plain ...

They are inconspicuous and usually very short – but they can have a great effect: In the German language, prefixes sometimes succeed in completely changing the meaning of a word. If you read carefully ...

Regarding Andy Kessler’s “Little to Like on the Prefix Menu” (Inside View, Aug. 28): Can we toss some non-prefix words, too? The ever-irritating “existential” and “performative,” for example—words so ...

Sometimes I think the people behind punctuation rules are co-conspirators in a plot to drive us insane. Then I realize they could be coconspirators. That’s when I know their plot has succeeded. Of all ...