Do you know the difference between prefixes and suffixes? Click on the following links to find out more about suffixes and quiz yourself. Can you name some suffixes and give their meanings?
Suffixes List
Suffixes Factsheets
Suffixes Quizzes
Suffixes Game: Short Circuit
Monday, August 2, 2010
Suffixes
Posted by Mrs Tay at 5:03 AM
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Suffixes that i know.
1)-phobia
Example:Hydrophobia
2)-wise
Example:Clockwise,anti-clockwise
less-useless
meaning:no use
ful-playful
meaning:loves to play
less-useless
meaning:no use,
ful-playful
meaning:loves to play
Suffixes:
anti:against
cent:hundred
-cian
e.g:musician
-tion
e.g:injection
1)-ist
example:artist
2)-ly
example:slowly
-cide
homicide
-ess
empress
Suffixes
Examples:Comfortable,Blockade
Ive learnt that suffixes are basically words at the end of a word. E.G "ist" This suffix mainly describes the person like biologist And "us" for something like an illness , inflammation, like ulcus.
suffixes i know:
1)~ness
examples:
~lonliness
~loveliness
2)~ly
~lonely
~lovely
1)-onomy
Example:economy
i love this interesting games, i love those links mrs tay.
I like the suffixes game.Like cent-hundred.
-ful
Hopeful E.g
-ness
E.g happiness
suffixes i know.
1)-cycle
example:hydro-cycle,bicycle
2)-phone
example:telephone,homophone
I learnt that there are many different suffixes. One interesting suffix is science. The suffix itself is actually a word and it is added to another word to another word like omniscience. Its really interesting!
Suffixes:
1)science:knowing
2)phone: sound,audio
agnoy mean leading.
exmple:pedagony
ship mean circle state of being.
exmple:friendship, relationship.
the game let me learn many suffixes
1)phone=telephone
Meaning:sound audio
2)ium=calcium
Meaning:metallic element
Thanks Mrs Tay for posting up interesting games for us!
-cracy
Meaning:rule,government
Examples:aristocracy / bureaucracy
hope- ful
hopeful
means:a lot of hope
Suffixes That I Know
1)-cian
Example: Musician
Meaning: Someone who plays the instrument
2)-ly
Example: Lovely
Meaning: Something very delightful
Suffixes
1)cracy
meaning:government
example:democracy
2)ess
meaning:female
example:actress
more suffixes:
1)-ess
example:waitress,actress.
-phobia
meaning:fear of
-arian
meaning:one who
1)agogy =pedagogy
Meaning:leading
2)centesis=rachicentesis
Meaning:puncturing
1)-ology
meanig:(study of)
Example:zoology
Thank you Mrs Tay for putting up all these things !
i loved the quizzes.they were interesting and they helped me a lot. examples are:
.suicide- kill yourself
.helpless- no hope
.careful- not careless
thanks! :P
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