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Suffixes are added to the ends of words in order to change their root form. Sometimes nouns will become adjectives, sometimes verbs will become nouns, etc. We also use suffixes to create the plural forms of words, and to make sure word tenses remain consistent throughout a sentence. End all of your words the right way with these guys and some more tender loving care. These activity sheets will provide short sentences and prompts in order to help your students learn how to use suffixes correctly. Answer sheets have been provided. If you work through all of the worksheets, down below, you will start to see a pattern that is true to the English language.

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A suffix comes at the end of a word. When the suffix "-er" is added to the end of a verb, it means one of the following.

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Adding "-er"

"-er" is added to the end of a verb, it means one of the following: - Someone who does something - Something that does something - Someone who provides or is involved with something

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Creating New Words with Suffixes

Add the correct word part, -ful or -less to each term below to create a word that matches the meaning given.

Skills Worksheet

You will choose from several different choices to create a new term by adding a suffix of your choice.

What Is It?

You can use suffixes to create new words. Choose one of the chunk that are provided to create a word that has the meaning provided. Write the term that you have created on the line.

Making Adjectives with Suffixes: Part I

When you add certain suffixes to nouns and verbs, you can create adjectives. You may have to change, drop, or add letters before adding the suffix to some words.

Making Adjectives with Suffixes: Part II

Add one of the four suffixes above to each word to create an adjective. Write the new term on the line.

You will be given a word and you will apply new parts to it and the end result will be a brand new term.

Noun Suffixes: Part I

You will add suffixes to a given base term to create an entire new word. In some cases you will create a synonym in other case, it could be quite the opposite.

Noun Suffixes: Part II

This is a series of additional tasks that track with the previous worksheet, but they do push it in a different direction.

New Creations

This is going to be a familiar series of tasks to help you practice this skill in a few different ways.

Creating Words

Add suffixes to each base word. Write the new term on the first line. On the second line, write the part of speech that this new term represents.

Suffixes and Parts of Speech

Locate the suffix in each word. Write the suffix on the first line. What part of speech is it? Write the part of speech on the second line.

How Many Worksheet

See how many words you can make that contain the suffixes you identified above. Write them on the lines.

The Suffix Game

Cut out the cards. Shuffle them, and place them face-down on a hard surface. On each turn, a player draws a card and says a word that contains the suffix on the card. Then the player keeps the card. Words cannot be repeated.

The Suffix Game Part 2

If the player is unable to think of a word, the card is returned face-down and put back into play.

The Suffix Game Part 3

Play continues until all cards have been drawn and a word has been said for each suffix.

The Suffix Game Part 4

The winner is the player with the most cards. How does that all fit.

Adding Ending to Words

When we add an ending (-s, -ed or -ing) to the end of a word, the spelling changes but the meaning does not. When we add a 's', we make the word a plural, meaning more than one.

-ed and -ing Words

Copy the sentences below, changing the underlined word to the correct usage by adding -ed or -ing.

What Are Suffixes?

Broadcast media has radically changed how people learn new things. Learning new languages has always been associated with different forms of media, and rightly so. We can all agree that our trusty vintage television helped us learn much more about English than Miss Nancy from first grade. People can quickly learn how to speak different languages but understanding the different complexities and rules of grammar lie in a whole other ballpark.

So today, we'll be talking about one of the foundations of the English language, suffixes.

To understand what suffixes are, we need to define an important term called the “affix.” You might recall the word from your school days, but what is it?

Affixes are words, letters, or groups of letters that can be added to a root word to form a different word or to change the root word’s meaning. There are two main kinds of affixes: prefixes and suffixes. Consider the root word form and the word conforming. Conforming is made by adding the prefix con- before the root word and the suffix -ing after it.

Most commonly they are used to broaden our use of language and spice up the things we say, read, and write. They are often used to display a part of speech of a word. They also elude to the verb tense of the words and can tell us if a word is singular or plural. A good number of suffixes have multiple meanings and we need to see where they sit within the context of the sentences to determine their meaning. These word parts also have a way of changing the spelling of words. Some words would not be words without the presence of a suffix. An academic example is the word unforgettable. We cannot unforget something, but something can be unforgettable for certain.

Therefore, we can define a suffix as a letter, or group of letters, that is added at the end of a word to form new words or change the root word’s meaning and function. They can be as small as a single letter or as big as a four-letter word. However, there’s a stark difference between words that form suffixes and prefixes.

Words that form prefixes can sometimes make sense independently, like the prefix per- in the word perform. However, words that form suffixes don’t typically mean anything on their own, like the suffix -ing in the word suffering.

Take a look at the following letters that are used to form suffixes:

Importance and Function

Suffixes take a base or root word and change its meaning or grammatical function. Therefore, suffixes hold extreme significance in English as they enrich the vocabulary. Using just one root word, you can form several associated new words by adding a simple suffix at the end. An easy example is the word art; take the suffix -ist, and you get artist, a person skilled in art!

Similarly, suffixes are also used to form comparative adjectives. For instance, add the suffixes -er and -est to the adjective brave, and you get the comparative braver and the superlative bravest. Let’s explore some examples of suffixes in detail.

Examples of Suffixes

There are different suffixes, just as there are different kinds of words. Suffixes can modify nouns, verbs, and adjectives, or they can also modify them to change their forms. For example, the word read can be changed into the noun reader by adding the suffix -er. Here’s a list of some commonly used suffixes:

In Noun Form

In Verb Form

In Adjective Form

Learning about suffixes helps us expand our vocabulary. They’re easy to explain and can also aid children in faster learning. A little kid who only knows the word pay can use different suffixes to form the words payer, payment, paying, payable, and payee all in one go!

The English language isn’t that challenging to understand once you grasp the important concepts. Educationists can help young individuals advance their language prowess using easy-to-understand concepts like the use of affixes. We hope you now know what suffixes are and will use them to help others!

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A root word is a word that can be made into a new word by adding a prefix or a suffix. With this helpful classroom activity, your students will practice adding the suffix -ER onto root words to change their meaning! For example, watch the verb “play” turn into a noun, “player”, by adding the suffix -ER. This activity is a great way to keep students involved and learning in the classroom and at home!

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big, bigger, biggest small, smaller, smallest thin, thinner, thinnest
happy, happier, happiest narrow, narrower, narrowest silly, sillier, silliest
bizarre, more bizarre, most bizarre steadfast, more steadfast, most steadfast
clever, cleverer, cleverest or clever, more clever, most clever cruel, crueler, cruelest or cruel, more cruel, most cruel
difficult, more difficult, most difficult memorable, more memorable, most memorable
thrilling movie, tired golfer
more thrilling movie more tired golfer

Sounds-Weird Rule for States of Adjectives Sometimes the ‑ er and ‑ est endings just sound strange. For example, the correct comparative and superlative forms of common are commoner and commonest . But these words sound strange, the first like some cockney character pushing a barrow in the East End of London, the second like some sort of dangerous subversive. Thus: common , more common , and most common would be regarded as correct by most people (simply because they’re used to hearing these forms). In formal settings, however, you should choose the correct forms, commoner and commonest . Look-It-Up Rule for States of Adjectives You can always find the answer in the dictionary. Look up common , and immediately following the word you’ll find the endings ‑ er and ‑ est . These entries show how to form the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective. Now look up the word different . Notice that following the entry you do not find the endings ‑ er and ‑ est . The absence of these endings means that you use more for the comparative and most for the superlative.   Previous: Positive, Comparative, Superlative Next: Only One State, e.g., Unique

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These PDF worksheets, covering adding ‘-ed’, ‘-ing’, ‘-er’ and ‘-est’, are an excellent way for children in Y2 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.

The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

This primary resource is divided into three sections:

  • Tips This section explains how to add the suffixes ‘-ed’, ‘-ing’, ‘-er’, ‘-est’ and ‘-y’
  • Check Circle the words which are spelt correctly, complete the words with parts missing and add suffixes to the words to complete the sentences
  • Use Use the word in each box to write a sentence about each picture
  • Change Read each sentence and change the underlined word or phrase for a new word. Your new word should have the same meaning and contain ‘-ed’, ‘-ing’ , ‘-er’ or ‘est’
  • Use Write a short story about the image provided, trying to include as many of the words provided once you have added a suffix to them

What is a suffix?

Suffixes are letters, or groups of letters, that are added to the end of words to make a new word or change the meaning of word.

Suffix examples

  • -ing: eating, running, saying
  • -ed: planned, walked, burned
  • -er: teacher, trainer, farmer
  • -est: highest, fastest, biggest
  • -ier: mightier, zanier, funnier
  • -ity: activity, equality, civility
  • -less: useless, sleeveless, witless
  • -ness: happiness, fitness, silliness

National Curriculum English programme of study links

  • add prefixes and suffixes: using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs, using the prefix un–, and using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]
  • read words containing common suffixes
  • add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
  • apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet
  • use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them
  • apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
  • use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them

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