Suffix Worksheet

Vocabulary lesson 15: Suffixes: ful, less, ness, er, ly · Set 980 · 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.Which word means “without help”? (a) helper (b) helpless (c) helpful (d) helping
2. 2.Which word means “the state of being kind”? (a) kindest (b) kinder (c) kindly (d) kindness
3. 3.Which word means “without fear”? (a) fearful (b) feared (c) fearfully (d) fearless
4. 4.Which word means “without pain”? (a) painter (b) painful (c) painted (d) painless
5. 5.Which word means “without end”? (a) endings (b) ended (c) endless (d) ending
6. 6.Add the suffix: bake + er = ? (a) bakor (b) bakeer (c) bakar (d) baker
7. 7.Which word means “without care”? (a) carefully (b) carer (c) careful (d) careless
8. 8.Add the suffix: dig + er = ? (a) diggor (b) digger (c) diger (d) diggar
9. 9.Add the suffix: quick + ly = ? (a) quickley (b) quikly (c) quickely (d) quickly
10. 10.Which suffix means “one who does something”? (a) -ly (b) -ness (c) -er (d) -less
11. 11.Which suffix means “in a … way”? (a) -er (b) -less (c) -ful (d) -ly
12. 12.Which word means “one who paints”? (a) painted (b) painter (c) paints (d) painting
13. 13.Which word means “full of help”? (a) helpless (b) helper (c) helpful (d) helpfully
14. 14.Add the suffix: sad + ly = ? (a) sadly (b) saddly (c) sadley (d) sadely
15. 15.Add the suffix: happy + ness = ? (a) happines (b) happiness (c) happyness (d) happieness
16. 16.Add the suffix: sad + ness = ? (a) saddness (b) sadnes (c) sadeness (d) sadness
17. 17.Which suffix means “the state of being”? (a) -ness (b) -er (c) -ful (d) -ly
18. 18.Add the suffix: heavy + ly = ? (a) heavyly (b) heavly (c) heavilly (d) heavily
19. 19.Add the suffix: care + ful = ? (a) careful (b) carefull (c) carful (d) caerful
20. 20.Add the suffix: use + less = ? (a) uselesss (b) usless (c) useles (d) useless
21. 21.Add the suffix: write + er = ? (a) writeer (b) writter (c) writar (d) writer
22. 22.Which word means “in a slow way”? (a) slowness (b) slower (c) slowly (d) slowest
23. 23.Which word means “full of thanks”? (a) thankless (b) thankfully (c) thanking (d) thankful
24. 24.Add the suffix: play + ful = ? (a) playfull (b) playful (c) plaiful (d) playfel
25. 25.Which word means “the state of being happy”? (a) happily (b) happier (c) unhappy (d) happiness
26. 26.Add the suffix: kind + ness = ? (a) kindnes (b) kindeness (c) kindniss (d) kindness
27. 27.Which word means “full of beauty”? (a) beautify (b) beauty (c) beautifully (d) beautiful
28. 28.Which word means “without hope”? (a) hopeful (b) hoped (c) hopeless (d) hoping
29. 29.Add the suffix: wonder + ful = ? (a) wonderfull (b) wondreful (c) wonderful (d) wonderfel
30. 30.Which word means “without sleep”? (a) sleeper (b) sleepy (c) sleeping (d) sleepless
31. 31.Which word means “in a sad way”? (a) sadness (b) sadly (c) sadder (d) sadden
32. 32.Which word means “one who sings”? (a) songs (b) sang (c) singing (d) singer
33. 33.Which word means “in a kind way”? (a) kindest (b) kindness (c) kinder (d) kindly
34. 34.Which word means “full of hope”? (a) hopeful (b) hopefully (c) hoping (d) hopeless
35. 35.Which word means “the state of being sick”? (a) sickly (b) sicker (c) sicken (d) sickness
36. 36.Which word means “in a brave way”? (a) braver (b) bravery (c) bravest (d) bravely
37. 37.Which word means “without power”? (a) powerful (b) powerless (c) powering (d) powered
38. 38.Add the suffix: teach + er = ? (a) teachere (b) teacher (c) teachar (d) teachor
39. 39.Add the suffix: angry + ly = ? (a) angrily (b) angrly (c) angryly (d) angrilly
40. 40.Which word means “one who plays”? (a) played (b) playing (c) playful (d) player

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