1. Suffixes “-ly” and “-y”
Word Study
Suffixes “-ly” and “-y”

2. Let’s start with a review:
You’ve learned about suffixes before…
Remember “-er” and “-est”?
Those are suffixes!
So……….What are suffixes?

3. A Suffix is:
A word part that is added to the END of a word and has a MEANING OF ITS OWN. So, you remember “er” means more than. You remember that “est” means what? That’s right…Most! So, it can be added to the word big + est = to change the meaning of big to the biggest of all!

4. I ate this biggest sundae!

5. There are LOTS of suffixes that we can attach to base words.
You’ve mastered 2: -er and –est.
Ready for 2 more?
Alright, if you insist…

6. Sleepy! -ly -ly by itself means “in a way that is.”
Remember when I got up at 4:30am on Saturday instead of 7:30am (yes, it’s my make-believe example last time? I got up earlier, right?
Well, you’d better believe I was…
Sleepy!

7. You know what I mean?

8. So, I hit my snooze button, and grumbled. I went back to sleep.
Six minutes later at 4:36…
I hit the snooze button again, and went back to sleep…
At 4:42, the alarm rang again, and I got up. But you know how I got up?

9. I got up… I’m going to attach a suffix to sleepy. Here goes:
When my alarm went off, I got up, sleepily.

10. -ly
Adding –ly to my base word gives me a way to describe the way I’m doing things. Would you like another example?

11. Remember the Birthday Remix Sundae from Coldstone Creamery?
Guess how I ate it. Yes, I ate it hungrily. By the way, what spelling rule did I use to create this word? Yes, change the “y” to “i” and add –ly. (That could be a good rap)

12. What does this sentence mean?
I eagerly went to see the new Star Trek movie. (Okay, I wouldn’t eagerly go. I’d go because my husband and stepson, Devyn, dragged me there). But, for the example…it means… I went to the new Star Trek movie in a way that was eager. I was “excited” to go!

13. Here’s the next suffix: -y
-y by itself means made up of or like.
If I’m eating the new Volcano taco from Taco Bell, I might say that it is spicy.
That means it:
Is made up of spice
Tastes like spice
Okay, you know it was coming…what spelling rule did I use to create the word spicy?

14. Spelling rule: Spice + y – e = spicy. What does snowy mean?
Made up of snow, or like snow.
The lifeguard trudged along the foggy beach.
What does foggy mean?

15. Foggy means: Fog + g + y = Foggy.
Made up of fog or like fog. There was lots of fog on the beach that day.
What’s the spelling rule you would use to create the word, foggy?
Fog + g + y = Foggy.