Year 2 Spelling Patterns: Adding Suffixes and Writing Contractions
Join Year 2 root words to the suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less and -ly (including y to i changes) and write contractions with apostrophes, using the DfE example words.
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Year 2 Spelling Patterns: Adding Suffixes and Writing Contractions
First join each root word and suffix (watch out: y changes to i in words like merry + ment). Then write each phrase as a contraction with an apostrophe.
Word bank
I'llIt'sCan'tBadlyDidn'tHasn'tCarefulSadnessCouldn'tHopelessHappinessPennilessMerrimentEnjoyment
- 1.enjoy + ment = blank
- 2.sad + ness = blank
- 3.care + ful = blank
- 4.hope + less = blank
- 5.bad + ly = blank
- 6.merry + ment = blank
- 7.happy + ness = blank
- 8.penny + less = blank
- 9.Write "cannot" as a contraction.
- 10.Write "did not" as a contraction.
- 11.Write "has not" as a contraction.
- 12.Write "could not" as a contraction.
- 13.Write "it is" as a contraction.
- 14.Write "I will" as a contraction.
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 1: Spelling (statutory) — Statutory word lists, spelling rules and example words are reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright).