Suffix Worksheet

Vocabulary lesson 15: Suffixes: ful, less, ness, er, ly · Set 428 · 40 questions

Word tip (Look at the ending): -ful = full of (hopeful), -less = without (hopeless), -ness = the state of being (kindness), -er = one who does (teacher), -ly = in a … way (slowly). A consonant + y changes y to i: happy + ness = happiness, easy + ly = easily. A short word ending in one vowel + one consonant doubles the last letter before -er: run → runner. -ful has only one l.

1. 1.Add the suffix: home + less = ? (a) homeles (b) homelees (c) homless (d) homeless
2. 2.Add the suffix: dark + ness = ? (a) darckness (b) darknes (c) darkeness (d) darkness
3. 3.Which suffix means “one who does something”? (a) -less (b) -er (c) -ness (d) -ly
4. 4.Which suffix means “the state of being”? (a) -ly (b) -er (c) -ness (d) -ful
5. 5.Which word means “full of help”? (a) helpful (b) helpless (c) helper (d) helpfully
6. 6.Which suffix means “in a … way”? (a) -er (b) -ly (c) -less (d) -ful
7. 7.Which word means “in a careful way”? (a) careful (b) carefully (c) carer (d) careless
8. 8.Which word means “the state of being happy”? (a) happier (b) happily (c) unhappy (d) happiness
9. 9.Which word means “full of peace”? (a) peaceful (b) peacefully (c) peacemaker (d) peaces
10. 10.Which suffix means “full of”? (a) -ly (b) -ful (c) -less (d) -er
11. 11.Add the suffix: lucky + ly = ? (a) lukily (b) luckily (c) luckyly (d) luckilly
12. 12.Which word means “full of hope”? (a) hopeful (b) hoping (c) hopeless (d) hopefully
13. 13.Add the suffix: heavy + ly = ? (a) heavly (b) heavilly (c) heavyly (d) heavily
14. 14.Which word means “one who paints”? (a) painted (b) painting (c) paints (d) painter
15. 15.Which word means “in a happy way”? (a) happier (b) happiest (c) happiness (d) happily
16. 16.Add the suffix: tidy + ness = ? (a) tidness (b) tidiness (c) tidines (d) tidyness
17. 17.Which word means “the state of being sick”? (a) sicker (b) sickness (c) sicken (d) sickly
18. 18.Which word means “in a loud way”? (a) loudest (b) louder (c) loudness (d) loudly
19. 19.Which word means “the state of being dark”? (a) darkly (b) darker (c) darken (d) darkness
20. 20.Which word means “without end”? (a) ended (b) ending (c) endless (d) endings
21. 21.Which word means “full of beauty”? (a) beautifully (b) beautiful (c) beauty (d) beautify
22. 22.Add the suffix: happy + ly = ? (a) happily (b) happiely (c) happyly (d) happly
23. 23.Add the suffix: sad + ness = ? (a) sadeness (b) saddness (c) sadness (d) sadnes
24. 24.Which word means “in a brave way”? (a) bravest (b) bravely (c) bravery (d) braver
25. 25.Which word means “in a quick way”? (a) quickness (b) quicken (c) quickly (d) quicker
26. 26.Which suffix means “without”? (a) -er (b) -ness (c) -ful (d) -less
27. 27.Which word means “full of pain”? (a) painful (b) painter (c) painfully (d) painless
28. 28.Add the suffix: angry + ly = ? (a) angrly (b) angrily (c) angryly (d) angrilly
29. 29.Add the suffix: write + er = ? (a) writeer (b) writter (c) writer (d) writar
30. 30.Which word means “without power”? (a) powerful (b) powering (c) powerless (d) powered
31. 31.Add the suffix: care + ful = ? (a) careful (b) caerful (c) carefull (d) carful
32. 32.Add the suffix: sad + ly = ? (a) sadely (b) sadly (c) sadley (d) saddly
33. 33.Which word means “without a name”? (a) nameless (b) named (c) names (d) namely
34. 34.Add the suffix: easy + ly = ? (a) easily (b) easyly (c) easly (d) easely
35. 35.Which word means “without fear”? (a) fearfully (b) fearless (c) fearful (d) feared
36. 36.Add the suffix: joy + ful = ? (a) joiful (b) joyfull (c) joyfel (d) joyful
37. 37.Which word means “without a home”? (a) homework (b) homeward (c) homeless (d) homely
38. 38.Add the suffix: quick + ly = ? (a) quikly (b) quickely (c) quickley (d) quickly
39. 39.Which word means “one who farms”? (a) farmland (b) farmed (c) farming (d) farmer
40. 40.Which word means “without hope”? (a) hoped (b) hopeless (c) hopeful (d) hoping

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