Contractions and Root Words

1. What is a contraction?

• a person, place, thing or idea
• a word that describes something
• a sortened form of two words
• a story about someones life

2. What contraction is made from will + not?

• willn't
• will'nt
• wo'nt
• won't

3. What two words make up the contraction from the sentence below? We'd really like to go skiing with you this weekend.

• we + did
• we + would
• we + had
• we + it

4. What is the contraction for can + not?

• can't
• cann't
• cannot
• can'not

5. What do some letters get "replaced" by in a contraction when they are removed?

• comma
• apostrophe

6. What is the contraction for I + will?

• Ill
• i'll
• il'l
• I'll

8. It is a rainy day and I would like to measure how much rain we get. What tool should I use?

• hydrometer
• biography
• terragraph
• dictionary

9. What job is based on the study of life?

• geology
• scientology
• hydrology
• biology

10. What does the underlined root word mean in the word telegraph?

• to talk
• telephone
• far off
• to move