IXL | Complete the sentence with the affixed word

Which word makes the most sense in the sentence?

The

hanger

fixed our front steps last week.

hanger

builder

secretly

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Which word makes the most sense in the sentence?

If you

uncage

the votes, the winner might change.

uncage

miscount

rewear

key idea

When reading long words, it can be helpful to break them into smaller parts. You can look for prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes are word parts that appear at the beginning of words. Suffixes appear at the end of words.

For example, these words have prefixes:

dislike
mishear
preheat

These words have suffixes:

helpful
quickly
careless

To read words with prefixes and suffixes, sound out each part of the word on its own, then put the parts together.

dis|like
mis|hear
pre|heat
help|ful
quick|ly
care|less

solution

The word miscount makes the most sense in this sentence.

If you miscount the votes, the winner might change.

Notice that miscount has the prefix mis-. You can break this word into parts:

mis + count

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