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Anonymous  +  428175 Sun, 07 Oct 07 11:47 AM

My 10 yo daughter has a question in her english workbook i just don't understand.

It says:

Write the three parts of theses words.

steady   ____________   _____________   _________________

spring   ____________   _____________   _________________

Can anybody explain what this question means?

Thanks

David

PS  Both my wife and I are educated at university level and we are both stumped!
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Mister Micawber  +  428195 Sun, 07 Oct 07 01:07 PM

I can only think that the teacher wants the verb forms (present, past, past participle), as in STEADY STEADIED STEADIED and SPRING  SPRANG/SPRUNG  SPRUNG.
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Anonymous, 2 yr 46 days ago
i think you might be after prefixes, root and suffixes.
khoff  +  429105 Tue, 09 Oct 07 11:25 PM
But the words given don't have prefixes or suffixes!  I would just ask the teacher for an example.
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