76. Word Lists and Sentences

List 1
potential confidential
substantial martial
dietitian
  1. The initial examination lasted less than we thought it would.
List 2
artificial commercial
mathematician official
glacial prejudicial
politician electrician
financial optician
  1. We will need to call the photocopy technician to fix the photocopier.
  2. Officially, the man will be charged with murder.
List 3
habitual mutual
tarantula spiritual
Portugal
  1. Virtual reality gaming is one of the hottest trends and some people will get hysterical if you try to take their gaming equipment from them.

Review Words

mortician slogan
conference eventually
instance obstetrician
infatuated especially
orphan political
punctuate reversible
partial abandon
deliverance factual

What Says?

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

Spelling and Sentence Dictation

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
11. 12.
13. 14.
15.

 

1.
2.
3.

Review

connective ti says /sh/; connects word endings to base words

connective ci /sh/; connects word endings to base words

connective tu /choo/; Latin connective

cial or tial

What’s the letter before these -cial words: social, special, beneficial?

What’s the letter before these -tial words: essential, substantial, partial?

Spelling Pattern Generalization

Use -cial -cian after a vowel, like after the vowel ‘o’ in social, ‘e’ in special, ‘i’ in beneficial

Use -tial -tian after a consonant, especially, after ‘n’ in substantial, essential, and ‘r’ in partial

Practice

  1. Underline the connective ‘ci’, ‘ti’ or ‘tu’ in these words.
    mortician ritualistic
    obstetrician especially
    perpetuate partial
  2. Choose the correct spelling of cial or tial for these words.
    confiden_____ offi_____
    creden_____ so_____
    cru_____ impar_____
    essen_____ poten_____
    fa_____ ra_____
    judi_____ residen_____
  3. Add the correct form of the chameleon prefix to each of these words.
    subcessful
    conrection
    inresponsible
    subficient
    confortable
    imlegal
    sucmission
    cortractor
    inpossible
    sufpision

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