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Most of all, WordMaker™ helps you see the "little changes" we make to existing words. (No, this will not make a new language just for you...:)  But when you see how a word is made, then you can remember that word and use that word again yourself.

In an earlier WordMaker™, you saw putting two words together can make a new word.

tree + top = treetop

bed + room = bedroom

week + end = weekend

However, there are a few "little changes" that make bigger words from smaller ones, called Affixes. Below are the main kinds of WordMaker™  rules for Affixes that you will learn in future Wordmakers™:

Letters in Front of a Word (Prefix)

Letters on the front of the word (im + possible) make very different meanings. See if you can see the base words here:

incorrect         (not correct)

unhappy          (not happy)

renew             (make new again)

return              (turn back)

preview           (before the view)

Letters on the Back of a Word (Suffix)

Letters on the back of the word sometimes also change a few letters at the end of the word. Mostly that is for easier pronunciation. There are 4 basic reasons for Letters on the Back of a Word:

1. To make a word into a noun:

    friend + ship = friendship  (a bond of friends)

    govern + ment = government (an organization for governing)

     sing  +   er   = singer (a person who sings)

     free + dom  = freedom (a state of being free)

2. To make a word into a verb:

    system + atize = systematize  (make into a system)

    regular + ate = regulate  (make regular)

3. To make a word into an adjective:

     interest + ing = interesting (having one’s interest)

     agree + able  =  agreeable (able to agree with)

     thank + ful     = thankful  (full of thanks)

     care + less   = careless (without a care)

4. To make a word into an adverb:

     happy + ly = happily (in a happy way)

     after + ward = afterward (after an event)

These are just a few of the beginnings, and endings and the kinds of words they make. In future lessons we will show you how re-, inter-, in-, -ism, -ment, and many, many more work. These "little changes" give big new meanings to words you already know.

If you understand these "little changes," you will know 3 times as many words as we have in all the lessons. And it will be simple....Promise.

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Affix - Letters attached to a word that makes a new word (Up)
Prefix - Letters attached to the front of a word that makes a new word (Up)
Suffix - Letters attached to the back of a word that makes a new word (Up)