Identifying Root Words Worksheet

A root word is a word that does not have a prefix before the word or a suffix at the end of the word. The root word is the primary grammar unit of a word, and of a word family, which carries the most important feature of content and cannot be reduced into smaller versions.

Can you find root words?

Here is a wonderful practice worksheet just for you. In the Identifying Root Words Worksheet, you will have a list of different words. Here you have to:-

• Look at the words in the list one by one.
• Identify the root word, the suffix and the prefix in the complete word.
• Write down the root word in the given blank space by removing the suffix and prefix.