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Let’s solve this step by step.

We are looking at the worksheet that says:
“Colour in the suffixes”
It gives us a color code:
- -ed = red
- -es = purple
- -s = blue
- -ful = green

Then we have a list of words. We need to find the suffix in each word and color it according to the code.

Let’s go through each word one by one:

1. washing → ends with “-ing” — but wait, our code doesn’t include “-ing”. So maybe this is not part of the coloring task? Let’s check the instructions again.

Actually, looking closely — the instruction says:
> Read the words and find the suffix. Colour in the suffix.

And the color key only includes: -ed, -es, -s, -ful

So if a word has one of those four suffixes, we color it. If not, we leave it uncolored (or maybe it’s not meant to be colored).

But let’s look at the actual words listed:

Words given:
- washing → suffix “-ing” → NOT in our color list → skip
- weekly → suffix “-ly” → NOT in list → skip
- filled → ends with “-ed” → COLOR RED
- dogs → ends with “-s” → COLOR BLUE
- opening → “-ing” → skip
- girls → “-s” → BLUE
- dresses → “-es” → PURPLE
- careful → “-ful” → GREEN
- spoonful → “-ful” → GREEN
- quietly → “-ly” → skip
- wishes → “-es” → PURPLE
- harmful → “-ful” → GREEN
- easily → “-ly” → skip
- opened → “-ed” → RED
- foxes → “-es” → PURPLE

Wait — let me double-check the list from the image. The user pasted text version, but let’s make sure we didn’t miss any.

From the text provided:

> washing
> weekly
> filled
> dogs
> opening
> girls
> dresses
> careful
> spoonful
> quietly
> wishes
> harmful
> easily
> opened
> foxes

That’s 15 words.

Now, let’s mark which ones have suffixes from our color key:

✔ filled → -ed → red
✔ dogs → -s → blue
✔ girls → -s → blue
✔ dresses → -es → purple
✔ careful → -ful → green
✔ spoonful → -ful → green
✔ wishes → -es → purple
✔ harmful → -ful → green
✔ opened → -ed → red
✔ foxes → -es → purple

The rest:
washing (-ing), weekly (-ly), opening (-ing), quietly (-ly), easily (-ly) → none of these match our color key → so they are not colored.

So final answer should list each word with its suffix and color.

But since the question is to “solve the problem”, and the problem is to color the suffixes based on the key, the solution is to identify which words get which color.

Since we can’t actually color here, we’ll write out what color each applicable word should be.

Final Answer:

filled → red
dogs → blue
girls → blue
dresses → purple
careful → green
spoonful → green
wishes → purple
harmful → green
opened → red
foxes → purple