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Learning prefixes and suffixes can help students guess the meaning of new or unfamiliar words which is a valuable skill. There are currently 40 worksheets to help you teach students about prefixes and suffixes and give students more practice using them. Let's take a look at a couple of the worksheets from this section. This worksheet focuses on five prefixes and gives students lots of practice with more than thirty sentences. The answer key is provided so it couldn't be easier to use this worksheet in your classes. If you do not want to dedicate that much time to prefixes, you might still want to use some of the sentences from this worksheet. For additional assistance when planning your lessons, here is a table of suffixes that can help you organize your teaching materials. These worksheets are not ideal for every teacher or course but there are others as well. Take a moment to look over some more worksheets. They are all free and printable so you can download as many as you'd like.
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What Are Suffixes?
In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes called a postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, a suffix is called an afformative, as they can alter the form of the words to which they are fixed. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes). (derivational suffixes). An inflectional suffix is sometimes called a desinence. Some examples in European languages: Many synthetic languages—Czech, German, Finnish, Latin, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish, etc.—use a large number of endings. Suffixes used in English frequently have Greek, French or Latin origins.
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Nouns Derived from Adjectives: Vocabulary Building (for Thai students) Nouns Derived from Adjectives: Vocabulary Building (for Thai students)This worksheet tests the ability of students to distinguish between a noun and an adjective. It focuses on using different words as adjectives on one hand and nouns derived from adjectives using a ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Prefixes: Meanings & Examples Prefixes: Meanings & ExamplesThis worksheet provides an overview of the most commonly used prefixes such as mis- un- pre- and dis-. It can be used for a reference for your students. You could also delete the example words a ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
More Word Formation More Word FormationThis worksheet is the last (so far) of my word-formation series. There are two exercises. In the 1st one the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word in brackets (noun, ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
-IBLE vs -ABLE -IBLE vs -ABLEThis worksheet is about -ible and -able suffixes which are frequently mixed in the words. Although a lot of grammar books do not pay attention to this fact, this grammar rule is of immense importa ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Word Formation (from Adjective to Noun or Verb) Word Formation (from Adjective to Noun or Verb)More practice with word formation. The students have two exercises: in the 1st one they have to fill in the blanks with the correct noun from the given adejctive; in the 2nd one, they have to give ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Word Formation (from Noun to Verb or Adjective) Word Formation (from Noun to Verb or Adjective)This worksheet consists of 32 sentences to practise word formation. In the first exercise te students have to fill in the blanks with the correct adjective from the noun in brackets. In exercise t ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Word Formation (from Verb to Noun or Adjective) Word Formation (from Verb to Noun or Adjective)This worksheet consists of two exercises. In the 1st one the students have 18 sentences with blanks and verbs in brackets. They have to write the correct form of the noun. In the 2nd one they have ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USE Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USEThere are numerous derivatives from the root word USE. This exercise aims at the consolidation of these expressions. There are examples of: useful, useless, usefulness, misuse, abuse, disuse, abus ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Word Formation Activity Word Formation Activity33 sentences to practise the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct from of the words in brackets, so they have to decide which pa ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Word Formation Worksheet 2 Word Formation Worksheet 2This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising word formation.There are simple explanations followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to form new words using the suffixes and ...
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Song Worksheet: Consider Me Gone by Sting Song Worksheet: Consider Me Gone by StingI designed this worksheet when I was training my students at word formation for one of the first modules of a CAE coursebook. It was meant as a follow-up to the activities for word formation at FL ...
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- Quiz The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- QuizA vocabulary quiz using the Greek or Latin root (-ped-) for decoding some of our English words, for example: biped, tripod, pedicure, peddler,pedal, pedestrian,impediment, quadruped, centipede, an ...
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Words That End In -GRY Words That End In -GRYIt's about very rare word ending that appears in only a couple of words in the English language. We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email…"There are t ...
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