ELA · Prefixes and suffixes
Suffixes: -ful, -less, -er, -ly, -ness and More
Learn what common suffixes mean and how they change words, like hopeful, fearless and teacher.
- 🎓 Grades 3–4
- 📖 ELA
- 📐 L.3.4.B
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What does the suffix "-less" mean in "fearless"?
- A full of
- B without
- C again
- D one who
What does the suffix "-ful" mean in "joyful"?
- A not
- B full of
- C without
- D before
What does the suffix "-er" mean in "baker"?
- A full of
- B not
- C one who
- D without
What does the suffix "-able" mean in "washable"?
- A one who
- B cannot be
- C full of
- D can be
What does "-ly" add to "quick" in "quickly"?
- A means not
- B means again
- C tells how it is done
- D makes it plural
What does "-ness" do in "kindness"?
- A names a quality
- B means not
- C means one who
- D means again
What does "-est" mean in "tallest"?
- A more
- B not
- C less
- D the most
What does "-es" show in "boxes"?
- A without
- B more than one
- C one who
- D in the past
What does "-ed" show in "jumped"?
- A full of
- B it is happening now
- C more than one
- D it already happened
What does "careless" mean?
- A care again
- B without care
- C full of care
- D one who cares
What does "helpful" mean?
- A full of help
- B help again
- C not helping
- D without help
What does "teacher" mean?
- A teaching before
- B without teaching
- C teach again
- D one who teaches
What does "breakable" mean?
- A cannot break
- B broken before
- C full of breaks
- D can be broken
What does "colorless" mean?
- A one who colors
- B full of color
- C without color
- D more color
What does "sadness" mean?
- A the state of being sad
- B one who is sad
- C not sad
- D very sad
What does "slowly" mean?
- A one who is slow
- B more slow
- C without slowing
- D in a slow way
Which word means "full of hope"?
- A hoped
- B hoping
- C hopeless
- D hopeful
Which word means "without fear"?
- A fearful
- B fearless
- C feared
- D fearing
Which word means "one who sings"?
- A songs
- B sang
- C singer
- D singing
Which word means "able to be read"?
- A reader
- B readable
- C reread
- D reading
Which word means "the most fast"?
- A fasten
- B fastest
- C fastly
- D faster
Which suffix makes "dark" mean "the state of being dark"?
- A -ly
- B -ness
- C -ful
- D -er
Which suffix makes "play" mean "full of play"?
- A -ful
- B -ness
- C -less
- D -able
Which suffix makes "paint" mean "one who paints"?
- A -er
- B -est
- C -ful
- D -ly
Which word has a suffix?
- A yellow
- B painless
- C pencil
- D river
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