Adding the Suffix ‘ful’
What rules do we need
to remember?
When ‘ful’ is added to a word as a
suffix, only one l is used
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artful
beautiful
delightful
grateful
helpful
hopeful
painful
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peaceful
skilful
successful
thoughtful
truthful
wasteful
wilful
wonderful
The same applies to other words,
normally having double ‘l’, when used
as a prefix or a suffix
Fulfil
Skilful
wilful
What do these words mean?
artful
skilful
wilful
Now get you wipe boards at the ready.
Scan the text and write down all the –
ful words you can spot
Skilful Goal-keeper
Scotland was successful in the European Cup on Saturday
because of the skilful tactics of the goal keeper Bobby
Martin.
He played a wonderful game, although he received a painful
knee injury in the first half. His team-mates were helpful
and the crowd demonstrated that they were always
hopeful of a win. The fans were peaceful and the other
side were wasteful of the chances which came their way.
Scotland will now meet Germany in the semi-final next
Thursday.
Did you spot them all? There were 8
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Successful
Skilful
Wonderful
Painful
Helpful
Hopeful
Peaceful
Wasteful
Turn y at the end of a word into i when
you add ful
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Beauty
Beautiful
Plenty
Plentiful
Fancy
Fanciful
Mercy
Merciful
Pity
pitiful
Now if ly to a word which already ends
in ‘l’, then the ‘l’ is doubled
See..
 beautifully
 hopefully
 successfully
 truthfully
 wonderfully
 skilfully
and so on
TASK:
Can you write a
complex sentence that
includes one or more of
these words?