SUFFIXES

COMBINE EACH ROOT WORD IN THE BANK WITH THE CORRECT SUFFIX. SUFFIXES COME AFTER
BASE OR ROOT WORDS
TO FORM NEW WORDS
LIKE NOUNS AND
Happy, help, style, artist,
expense, god, biology, ADJECTIVES.
geology, style, child, comfort,
brain,success, adventure,
Able, er, ous, ful,
enjoy,design, lead, fame,
danger, pain, sun, religion, less, ess, Ness, ist,
help, use, play, actor, poet, or, y, ish, ive.
waite, communicate, create,
wind, sad, lion.

COMPLETE AND FORM NEW WORDS BY USING SUFFIXES AND THEN WRITE A SENTENCE.

SUFFIX MEANING EXAMPLE SENTENCE

SIMPLE PRESENT-NEGATIVE
-ER
A person who

-OR SIMPLE PRESENT-AFFIRMATIVE

SIMPLE PAST-NEGATIVE
Able to Comfortable

SIMPLE PAST-AFFIRMATIVE
-OUS

Characterised by SIMPLE FUTURE-NEGATIVE

-Y Windy

SIMPLE FUTURE-AFFIRMATIVE
Helpless
without
SIMPLE PRESENT-QUESTION

-FUL Full of

SIMPLE PRESENT-AFFIRMATIVE
female Godess

SIMPLE PAST-NEGATIVE
-IST A person that
does a specified
action
SIMPLE PRESENT-NEGATIVE
Having the Childish
quality of

SIMPLE PAST-NEGATIVE
-NESS State of being
 VERBS FOLLOWED BY GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

VERBS FOLLOWED ONLY BY VERBS FOLLOWED ONLY BY VERBS FOLLOWED BY GERUNDS OR

GERUNDS INFINITIVES INFINITIVES

He keeps playing soccer everyday. She will want to play soccer next They liked playing soccer 2 years ago.
weekend.
They liked playing soccer 2 years ago.
admit agree begin
postphone plan cant bear
advise arrange cant stand
deny ask continue
appreciate want hate
dislike would like like
finish hope love
quit need prefer
keep expect propose
avoid choose start
imagine seem
cany help wait
complete promise
consider decide
enjoy fail
miss