If you were a prefix by Marcie Aboff
If you were a prefix, you would come first.
~Prefixes can make a regular school a preschool, change angles, to triangles, and make lucky unlucky.
If you were a prefix, you would be a letter or group of letters placed before a word to change its meaning.
~The colorful caterpillar transformed into a multicolored butterfly.
If you were the prefix “re,” you could do things over again.
~During the rematch, the giraffe rebounded the ball and dribbled down the path.
~The monkey had to replay the phone message about replacing the missing bananas.
If you were the prefix “co,” you could help do an important job.
~The copilot helped the pilot fly the airplane.
~The co-captain helped the captain steer the ship.
If you were the prefix “tele,” you could talk to, see, and watch things far away.
~The owl called the eagle on the telephone.
~The robin looked for the eagle with a telescope.
~The birds watched their favorite show on television!
If you were a prefix, you could give a word added meaning.
~The jaguar looked like a star driving his ordinary car. (Original sentence)
~The jaguar looked like a superstar driving his extraordinary car.
If you were a prefix, you could change the same word in different ways.
~You could make a cycle a unicycle, a bicycle, or a tricycle.
If you were a prefix, you could change a word to mean its opposite.
~The happy rabbit jumped out of the hole, and his friends appeared. (Original sentence)
~The unhappy rabbit climbed into the hole, and his friends disappeared.
If you were a prefix, you could be yourself. The prefix pre means “before.” The word fix means “to place.” Prefix means “to place before.”
You would always come first if you were a prefix.
