Quick Look: Unlocking Meaning with Prefixes and Suffixes

Lidra West: My first word is unprepared. Unprepared. I have a prefix 'u-n' here. My base word is here and then I have a suffix 'e-d'. I can take my word and I can break it apart to help me as the reader know what that word really means. So Orion, I have prefix 'u-n'. I have my base word prepare and then I have suffix 'e-d'. I know prefix 'u-n' means not. I know prepare, Hudson. That means that I have to get ready for something, right? And then I know suffix 'e-d' means that it happened in the past. So unprepared tells me that this word is, it means not ready in the past. I wasn't ready for something. I was unprepared for school because I didn't pack my backpack last night. I was unprepared for dance class because I left my tap shoes at my friend's house. So unprepared means I wasn't ready in the past.

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