General Knowledge
True or False.
Does sadness mean "less sad"?
False. It's the state of being sad.
Suffix -ness means...
What is "state or quality"?
What's the meaning of toothless?
What is without teeth, no teeth?
Suffix -ful means...
What is full of?
True or False: All words are made up of roots, prefixes, and/or suffixes?
True.
Can you identify any suffixes in this sentence? "The loudness of the speakers was a punishment for the audience."
What is loudness and punishment?
Suffix -less means...
What is without or inability to perform?
Define suffix.
It is a group of letters added to the end of a word causing changes on its meaning.
How can you change the verb punish into a noun using one of the suffixes we had practiced?
What is punishment?
True or False: A word that has the opposite meaning of another word is called a synonym?
False. They are called antonyms.
True or False? Suffixes are located at the end of a word or root word, but do not change the meaning of them.
False. They are located at the end of the word or root word, and they certainly change the meaning of them.
Suffix -ment means...
What is the action of doing something or the result of an action?
Based on what you know about the suffix -less, what word would you use for someone who does not feel pain?
What is painless?
Based on what you know about the suffix -ment, what does the word enjoyment mean?
What is the action of enjoying or having fun?
True or False: Words can have more than one meaning.
True.
Using a suffix we had practiced on this lesson, which one can you use to say someone has "lot of mercy".
What is merciful?
Read the sentence and determine the meaning of the word in the sentence that contains the suffix. "The teacher was very helpful when her students asked questions."
What is full of help?
Read the sentence and determine the meaning of the word in the sentence that contains the suffix. "The nurse was helpful at the hospital."
What is full of help or provided lots of help?
Read the sentence and determine the meaning of the word in the sentence that contains the suffix. "We got into complete darkness during the thunderstorm."
What is the lack of light or no light at all?
Fill in the blanks: When you add a ______ or a ______ to a root word you change the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix and a suffix?
Make a complete sentence using the suffix -ment.
Awesome job!
Based on what you know about the suffix -less, what does the word fearless mean?
What is without fear or unafraid?
Based on what you know about suffixes, use two of them to change the meaning of the word care?
What is careful (full of care), careless (lack of care or no care at all), or careness (feeling or showing concern for others)?
Based on what you know about the suffix -less, what does the word hopeless mean?
What is with no hope at all or lack of hope?
Two words that are spelled differently but sound the same when pronounced are called?
Homophones.