Week 8: Words with Prefixes -de and -dis,

Words with Suffixes -ly and -y,

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Quarter 4 - Module 8:

Week 8: Words with Prefixes -de and -dis,

Words with Suffixes -ly and -y, Words with
Suffixes -able and -ible

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What This Module is About

Hi, learner!

It’s time to learn new insights with the help of this module. This module is
especially made for you.

This material is self-instructional. The activities are designed for you to

work independently at the convenience of your homes.

With this modules, you will learn to identify the meaning of words with
prefixes de- and –dis-, identify the meaning of words with suffixes –ly
and –y and identify the meaning of words with suffixes –able and –
ible.
 Have an enjoyable learning experience!

What I Need to Know

Hi Learners! For today’s activity you are expected to:

1. Identify meaning of words with suffixes de- and –dis-.

2. Identify meaning of words with suffixes –ly and –y.
3. Identify meaning of words with suffixes –able and –ible.

How to Learn from this Module

` For you to achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the
following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and

exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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Lesson Words with Prefix de-

and dis-

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In this module, identifying prefixes de- and dis- would help you
understand the meaning of the words. A prefix is placed or added
before the word and to modify its meaning as by making it negative.
The given exercises and activities are carefully chosen to motivate
your interest in learning how to identify the meaning of words with
prefix –de and –dis.

What I Know

A.Directions: Choose the word from the box to complete the sentences
below. Write your answer on the space provided.

disobey debone dethrone disarm disconnect

1. The Security Guard managed to _________ the gunman.

2. We decided to _________the Basketball rules.

3. The butcher ____________ the fish for you.

4. The king was _____________ on his position.

5. Kindly __________ the plugged in the computer.

B. Directions: Supply and appropriate prefix –de and -dis for each of the
following words. Write your answer on the blank.
1. ________ agree
2. ________ approve
3. ________ code
4. ________ respectful
5. ________ flate

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 What’s In

Directions: Match each word below with its definition. Use the words
in the word box. Write the correct word on the blank.

Word Box
unsure unhappy unable disappear unknown
replay disagree rewind restart unstable

1. do not agree _______________

2. start again _______________
3. not safe _______________
4. not happy _______________
5. play again _______________ 6. not known
_______________
7. opposite of appear _______________ 8.
wind again _______________
9. not sure _______________
10. not able _______________

What’s New

Read and study the following words.

design display decode disallow
deny disco deflate disown
dear distance deplane disband
debut discuss derail disengage

Directions: Identify the prefixes and the root words. Write your
answer on the space provide.

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 Word Prefix Root Word
1. decode
2. deflate
3. disallow
4. disown
5. disengage
What is It

Think!
• The prefix de- means “to do the opposite of the
action” or “to do a completely different action.
• The prefix dis-means “not to” or “do not”
Root word Adding suffix de- or Meaning of the new
dis- word
obey disobey not to obey
generate degenerate to generate

Root word Adding suffix de- or Meaning of the new

dis- word
count discount not count
qualified disqualified not qualified
rail derail to rail

What’s More

Directions: Supply the words with correct prefix de- and dis- below.
Write your answer on the right column.

Root Words Prefix de- or dis- + Root Words

1. please

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 2. ability
3. frost
4. credit
5. approve
6. part
7. advantage
8. agree
9. grade
10. cline
What I Have Learned

A. Directions: fill in the column with the correct prefix de- or dis-
and the root words.

Word Prefix Root Word

1. defuse
2. displease
3. deactivate
4. dishonor
5. disappoint

B. Directions: choose the meaning of the following words from

the list. Encircle your answer.

1. disqualify a. very qualified

b. not include
c. include
2. disapprove a. not prove
b. to approve
c. not approve

3. deform a. not form

b. new form
c. not change

4. dishonest a. not honest

b. honest

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c. very honest

5. detach a.to remove

b. not touch
c. to arrange

What I Can Do
Directions: Read the sentences and choose the correct word to
complete the sentences.

disconnect deactivates disobedience dislike

deworm dishonest

1. I ______________ being away from my family.

2. James was ______________ to his family about the broken TV.
3. My mother threatened to _______________ our internet
connection.
4. Mother ___________ my internet Wi-Fi while playing games.
5. John shows ____________ to his parents.

Post Assessment
A. Directions: Read and analyze the question. Encircle the letter
of the correct answer.

1. What is the root word of “disable”?

a. isable b. sable c. able 2. What
prefix added to the word “disallow”?
a. disa b. dis c. di
4. What prefix suits best the word “courage”?
a. di b. de c. dis

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 5. What is the root word of “decompose”?
a. compose b. ecompose c. pose

6. Which one carries the meaning of “disengage”?

a. Not to engage b. no disengage c. not to
disengage

B. Directions: Choose the word from the box that best completes
each sentence. Write your answer on the space provided.
debone deform dethrone declog defrost

1. The plumber will ___________ the sink because it is overflowing

with water.
2. We need to __________ the freezer when the ice becomes one-
inch thick.
3. Mother asks the fish vendor to __________ the milk fish.
4. The oppressed people want to __________ the corrupt king.
5. Too much heat and pressure will __________ the clay pot.

Additional Activities

Directions: Change the words below by adding the correct prefix de-
or dis- and write it on the given blank.

1. band= _____________________________.
2. play= _____________________________. 3.
continue= _____________________________. 4.
scribe= _____________________________.
5. count= _____________________________.

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Lesson
Word’s with Suffixes –ly
and -y
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In this module, identifying suffixes –ly and –y would help you
understand the meaning of the words. A suffix is a meaningful letters
added or attached to the end of a word that could helped you to
understand the word itself. You will understand also that the suffixes
often change the words function from noun to adjective and verbs to
noun.

What I Know
Directions: Read the sentences and underline the correct word with
suffix –ly and –y inside the parentheses.

1. She’s walking (slowly, slowy).

2. Jake lived (happily, happy) ever after.
3. I touched her (lighty, lightly) in her hands.
4. The sky is (cloudly, cloudy).
5. Maria holds the scissors (safey, safely).
6. The (rainy, rainly) season starts in the middle of the year.
7. They make my days (truely,truly) exciting.
8. It was a (sunnly, sunny) morning.
9. The weather will be (windy, windily) this afternoon.
10. I was so (sleepy, sleepily).

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What’s In

Directions: Match the picture in Column B to the sentences in Column

A. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided

A B

______1. Bring your umbrella because A. it will

be a rainy day.

_______2. It is more fun to fly a kite on a B. windy

day.

_______3. It’s a perfect day to go to the C. beach

on sunny day.

_______4. My brother and I play quietly D.

because our baby sister is sleeping.

_______5.We were awakened in the middle E.

of the night by a dog barking loudly.

What’s New

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Directions: Read the poem below and answer the questions that
follow. Write your answer on the space provided.

Trees
Joyce kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poem are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Source: Best Loved Poems to Read Again and Again, Galahad Books,N.Y. 1993

1. What is the poem about?

_________________________________________

2. What are the underlined words mentioned in the poem?

_________________________________________
3. What syllable was added at the end of the root word?
_________________________________________
What is It

Read the words with suffixes –ly and –y.

orderly properly sunny rainy

sweetly clearly foggy stormy
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quickly loudly windy cloudy
quietly slowly chilly
kindly smoggy misty
smoothly breezy

Think!
A suffix is a word part added to the end of a base word that
creates a new word used as a different part of speech.

The root words in the first column are adjectives.

By adding –ly, the adjectives becomes adverbs (these indicate
how an action happened or is done).

The root words in the second column are nouns.

By adding –y, the nouns becomes adjectives (these indicate
having or like something).

Root word Adding suffix –ly or -y Meaning of the word

proper properly in a proper way

cloud cloudy full of clouds or
having cloud
If the adjective ends in-l, keep the –l and add –ly.
Examples:
casual-casually visual-visually global-
globally
If the adjective ends in consonant plus –y, change y to I and add –
ly.
Examples:
busy-busily ready-readily
happy-happily

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 What’s More

Directions: Supply the correct suffix –ly and –y and the meaning of
words below. Fill in the missing information in this chart.

Root Words Root Words + Meaning of the suffix

suffix –ly or -y
1. proper properly
2. cloud full of clouds or having a cloud
3. smooth smoothly
4. friend in a smooth way
5. luck full of luck or having luck
6. loud loudly
7. hard in a hard way
8. mess full of mess or having mess
9. clear clearly
10. safe in a safe way

What I Have Learned

Directions: Identify the correct words with suffix –ly or -y to complete

the sentence below. Write your answer on the blank.

properly patiently slowly rainy quietly

1. At the library, we work together _____________.

2. My family stayed inside during ____________ day.

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3. Maria arranged her clothes _______________.
4. Mark walked __________ in the stairway.
5. He waits ______________ in the bus station.

What I Can Do

A. Directions: Change the following words with correct suffix –ly or –

y. Remember to make the changes whenever needed. Write your
answer on the space provided.

1. heavy _______________________.
2. silent _______________________.
3. correct _______________________.
4. easy _______________________.
5. dirt _______________________.
B. Directions: Fill in each blank with correct suffix –y and –ly from the
word in the parentheses. Write your answer on the blank. 1. The ballet
dancer moved about __________. (graceful)
2. Tita Jane smiled at me __________. (sweet)
3. Today is a _______ day. (sun)
4. The employee will accept the task _________. (willing)
5. She wore a __________ dress. (dirt)

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 Post Assessment
A.Directions: Read the questions and encircle the letter of the correct
answer.

1. Which of the following uses –ly suffix?

b. loudly b. windy c. sunny

2. Which one carries the meaning of “in a clear way”?

b. cleary b. clearly c. clearry

3. What suffix suits best the word “Happy”?

b. happily b. happiest c. happy
4. Which one carries the meaning “having a rain”
b. rainyly b. rainy c. rainyy

5. Which of the following uses –y suffix?

b. clearly b. cloudy c. kindly

6. Which of the following uses – ly suffix?

a. kindly b. speedy c. sunny

B. Directions: Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.

7. Ernesto is a ___________ (lucky, luckily) boy.

8. Dogs growled _________ at the strangers. (fiercely, fierceily)

9. Rescuers went to the storm _______. (bravely, bravey).

10. It is very ______(stormy, stormily) outside today.

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 Additional Activities
Directions: Answer the questions using words with –ly. Write your
answer on the blank.

Example: What can you do quickly?

I can comb my hair quickly.

1. What can you do easily?

_____________________________________

2. What can you do patiently?

______________________________________

3. What can you do loudly?

_______________________________________

4. What can you do slowly?

_______________________________________

5. What can you do clearly?

_______________________________________

Lesson
Word’s with Suffixes –
able and -ible
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In this module, identifying suffixes –able and –ible would help you
understand the meaning of the words. A suffix is a meaningful letters
added or attached to the end of a word that could helped you to
understand the word itself. You will understand also that the suffixes –
able and –ible change the meaning of word by capable of being.

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 What I Know
Directions: Write the correct words in the blank with suffix –able or
ible to complete the sentence. Write your answer on the space
provided.

available visible possible valuable

dependable adorable horrible
impossible portable compatible
1. We appreciate you for being __________ throughout the program.
2. Ann Curtis’s daughter is so ________________.
3. Maria’s ________________________item lost in the travel.
4. Maria is a _____________________ daughter.
5. There are stars that are not ____________________ at night.
6. We will use every ____________________means to win this
game.
7. I bought my daughter a _____________________ cabinet.
8. We knew that it was __________________ to fix the problem.
9. She found a ____________________ partner in her prom.
10.The sight of battlefield was _______________________.

What’s In
Directions: Read the following words and encircle the correct spelling.

1. impossible impossable
2. sensable sensible
3. portible portable
4. adorable adorible
5. compatable compatible
6. adaptable adapatible

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7. credible credable
8. durable durible
9. serviceable servicible
10. pleasurable pleasurible

What’s New

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions below.

Write your answer on the blank.
Homer loved playing the piano. It was enjoyable for him. But
he couldn’t take his piano with him. It wouldn’t fit through the doors,
and it wasn’t bendable. Now, Homer was a nice, sensible boy. But
he wasn’t very smart or lovable. He tried to make a piano out of
rubber! He forgot that a rubber piano just isn’t playable! But it is soft.
Homer slept on his piano every night and dreamed of beautiful
music.

Let’s talk about the paragraph.

• What is the paragraph about?

• Who is the character in the paragraph?

_______________________________
• What are the words that ends with –able and –
ible in the paragraph?
________________________________
What is It

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Think!

The suffixes –able and –ible are added to the end of some
words to mean “capable of,” “can be,” or “able to be.”

Examples:

Lovable means “able to be loved.”

Something breakable means “can be broken”
Something playable means “able to be play”

Root word New word Suffix Meaning of the word

sing singable -able something that can be sung

allow allowable -able something that can be allowed
collect collectible -ible something that can be collected
value valuable -able something that is of value
fix fixable -able something that can be fixed

Add –ible to the end when you don’t have a root/complete word

horrible invincible
flexible reversible

Add –able to the end of a root/whole word.

Hospitable breakable
Washable comfortable

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 What’s More
Directions: Read the sentences below. Choose the proper
word in the box to complete each. Write your answer on the
blank.

possible visible
legible
adorable edible

noticeable

1. Cindy’s new baby is absolutely ___________________!

2. There’s a spot on your new dress, but it isn’t very
______________.
3. Please rewrite the story as your hand writing is not
______________.
4. I don’t think it is __________ for us to travel to Marshane
yet.
5. Orion’s belt is not __________ tonight because of the
clouds.

What I Have Learned

Directions: Read and analyze the meaning of the words. Choose

from the box with the words with –able and –ible. Write your answer
on the blank before the number.

adjustable honorable excitable

enjoyable sensible

_____________ 1. Likely to be excited.

_____________ 2. Capable of being adjusted.
_____________ 3. Worthy of being enjoyed.

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_____________ 4. Likely to make sense.
_____________ 5. Worthy of being honored.

What I Can Do

Directions: Fill in the missing information in this chart. Write your

answer on the space provided.

Root word suffix - New word Meaning

able or
ible
1.depend -able able to depended on
2.chew chewable able to be chewed
3.believe -able believable
4. -ible accessible able to accessed
5.profit profitable likely to profit
6. -able excusable able to be excused
7. love -able able to be loved
8. recycle -able recyclable
9.accept -able able to be accepted
10.flame -able capable of catching on fire easily

Post Assessment

A.Directions: Match each word in Column B to its meaning in Column

A. Write the corresponding letter of the correct answer on the space
provided.
A B.

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________1. able to be read a. possible

________ 2. not able to be forgotten b. legible

________ 3. able to be destructed c. manageable

________ 4. able to occur or happen d. unforgettable

________ 5. able to be managed e. drinkable

________ 6. Able to be drunk f. destructible

B. Directions: choose the correct word to complete the sentence.

lovable noticeable edible valuable

7. His scars are hardly_____________________ now.

8. Teddy bears are ___________________ toys.
9. Meat are ________________ food.

10. Arrange the jumbled words to create a complete sentence.

Tax on interest is payable

1. ________________________________________.

Additional Activities

Directions: Complete each word below by choosing –able or –ible.

Write the complete word on the space provided.

1. reli __________________

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2. invinc __________________

3. illeg __________________

4. cap __________________

5. aud __________________

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Ganchorre, V.S. P. & E. M. Santiago (2009) Developing My English

Power ( Revised Edition 2009) Books on Wheels Enterprises.

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Miranda, B. N. (2008) English For You and Me Textbook (Revised
Edition, 2011) Book Wise Publishing House, Inc.

Rabelas, Grace U., et. al. (2015). English Learner’s Material.

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