ACELA1514

Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

Elaborations

• Using knowledge of word origins and roots and related words to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots impact on plurals, for example ‘cactus’ and ‘cacti’, ‘louse’ and ‘lice’ (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• understanding how some suffixes change the grammatical form of words, for example ‘tion’ and ‘ment’ can change verbs into nouns, ‘protect’ to ‘protection’, ‘develop’ to ‘development’)

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