This week Year 6 have been learning to spell words that end in -tious and -cious.
We have begun to explore the patterns in these words as well as their meaning.
What does it mean?
The -tious and -cious are part of the -ious suffix. This suffix essentially means ‘full of’ or ‘having’ which can help us undertsand what the word means.
For example :
The word Spacious is made of the root word space and the suffx -ious. So the word spacious means ‘having space’ or ‘full of space’
This is a spacious car.
In in this sentence the word spacious tells us that car ‘has space‘ or is ‘full of space‘
Grammar
Words ending in -tious or -cious are generally adjectives. In fact, adding the suffix -ious to a noun can turn it into an adjective.
Words
| Green Challenge | Blue Challenge | Purple challenge |
| spacious
vicious gracious precious delicious conscious cautious infectious precautious scrumptious |
unconscious
suspicious ferocious luscious atrocious ungracious fractious superstitious ambitious fictitious |
subconscious
tenacious semiconscious malicious judicious vivacious contentious conscientious nutritious unambitious |