Word Parts : Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes (P2) worksheet | Live ... - Free Printable

Let's solve both Activity 3 and Activity 4 step by step.

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✔ Activity 3: Which of the following words have the “Suffix”?

We need to identify which word in each set has a suffix — a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or grammatical function.

#### 🔍 Understanding Suffixes:
Common suffixes include:
- -er: person who does something (e.g., dancer)
- -ing: present participle or gerund
- -ed: past tense
- -ly: adverbial form
- -al: adjective or noun ending
- -ity: noun forming (often abstract qualities)
- -ence, -ancy: noun endings
- -ness: noun indicating state or quality

Now, let’s go through each item:

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1. dancer – ends with -er → suffix ✔
- dance (base), danced (-ed), dancing (-ing)
→ Answer: 1. dancer

2. art – base word, no suffix
- artist (-ist), arts (-s), art gallery (compound)
→ Answer: 2. artist (has suffix "-ist")

3. sing – base
- sang (past), singer (-er), sung (past participle)
→ Answer: 3. singer (has suffix "-er")

4. secretary – base word
- secretarially (-ally), secretarial (-al), secretaryality? (rare)
→ Answer: 2. secretarially or 4. secretarial?
But "secretarial" is more common. Let's check:
- secretarial = adjective (from "secretary" + -ial) ✔
- secretarially = adverb (with -ally) ✔
Both have suffixes, but only one choice allowed per line.
Since secretarial is simpler and more standard, and appears in the list,
→ Answer: 4. secretarial

5. excellent – base
- excellence (-ence), excellent (same), excellency (-ency)
→ Answer: 2. excellence or 4. excellency?
Both have suffixes. But "excellence" has -ence, "excellency" has -ency
→ Both are correct, but likely they want 2. excellence as it's more common.
However, since excellency also has a suffix, and it's listed, we should pick one.
→ Answer: 2. excellence (common suffix -ence)

6. writing – ends with -ing → suffix ✔
- writer (-er), wrote (past), write (base)
→ Answer: 1. writing

7. white – base
- whitely (-ly), white (same), whiter (comparative), whiter (adjective)
→ whitely has suffix -ly ✔
→ Answer: 2. whitely

8. careless – ends with -less → suffix ✔
- care (base), carefully (-ly), carnass (not real)
→ Answer: 1. careless

9. benefits – plural form, -s is inflectional suffix ✔
- beneficial (-ial), beneficality (rare), beneficially (-ly)
→ All others have suffixes too, but benefits has -s (plural)
→ But "beneficial" has -ial, "beneficially" has -ly, so all except "benefits" are derived
Wait — benefits is plural, so -s is a suffix
But beneficial has -ial → suffix
So multiple options have suffixes.
The question says "which of the following words have the suffix", implying choose the one that clearly has a derivative suffix (not just plural).
→ Answer: 2. beneficial (has suffix -ial)
Or 3. beneficiality? That has -ity
But beneficial is more straightforward.
Let’s recheck:
- benefits: plural → suffix -s ✔
- beneficial: from benefit + -ial → suffix ✔
- beneficiality: -ity → suffix ✔
- beneficially: -ly → suffix ✔
So all four have suffixes? No — "benefits" has -s (inflectional), others have derivational.
But the activity likely wants derivational suffixes.
So best answer: 2. beneficial (has -ial) or 3. beneficiality (has -ity)?
But "benefits" is plural — not a derived word.
So only 2, 3, 4 have derivational suffixes.
But the format implies one answer per row.
Likely intended answer: 2. beneficial (most common)
→ Answer: 2. beneficial

10. work – base
- worker (-er), working (-ing), worked (-ed)
→ worker has -er → suffix ✔
→ Answer: 2. worker

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✔ Final Answers for Activity 3:

| Q | Answer |
|---|--------|
| 1 | 1. dancer |
| 2 | 2. artist |
| 3 | 3. singer |
| 4 | 4. secretarial |
| 5 | 2. excellence |
| 6 | 1. writing |
| 7 | 2. whitely |
| 8 | 1. careless |
| 9 | 2. beneficial |
|10 | 2. worker |

> 💡 Note: Some questions may have more than one correct answer, but based on typical classroom expectations, these are the most logical choices.

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✔ Activity 4: Roots, prefixes and suffixes

We are given root words and their meanings, and we need to find the meaning of the whole word using the root.

Let’s complete the table:

| Root | Meaning | Word | Meaning of Word |
|------|---------|------|------------------|
| auto | self | autobiography | story of one's own life → self-biography |
| dent | tooth | dentist | doctor who treats teeth → tooth specialist |
| liter | letter | literature | writings, books → written works |
| man | hand | manual | done by hand; book of instructions → hand-operated or instruction book |
| neo | new | innovation | new idea or method → new creation |
| phon-, phono- | sound, voice | telephone | distant voice → sound over distance |
| scrib, script | write | manuscript | written by hand → hand-written document |
| sol | sun | solar | relating to the sun → sun-related |
| spec | look, see | spectacles | glasses to help seeing → things to see with |
| bio | life | antibiotic | against life → kills bacteria (life) |
| mar | see | marine | related to sea → sea-related |

Now fill in the Thai column (คำแปล) if needed, but since you're asking for explanation in English, here's the completed table in English:

| Roots | Meaning | Words | Meaning of Word |
|-------|---------|-------|------------------|
| auto | self | autobiography | a biography written by oneself |
| dent | tooth | dentist | a doctor who treats teeth |
| liter | letter | literature | written works, especially fiction |
| man | hand | manual | operated by hand; handbook |
| neo | new | innovation | a new idea or method |
| phon-, phono- | sound, voice | telephone | a device for transmitting voice over distance |
| scrib, script | write | manuscript | a handwritten document |
| sol | sun | solar | relating to the sun |
| spec | look, see | spectacles | eyeglasses |
| bio | life | antibiotic | a substance that kills bacteria (microscopic life) |
| mar | see | marine | relating to the sea |

> 📌 Note: For antibiotic, the prefix anti- means "against", and bio means "life". So "against life" — but specifically against harmful bacteria.

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✔ Summary:

#### Activity 3 Answers:
1. dancer
2. artist
3. singer
4. secretarial
5. excellence
6. writing
7. whitely
8. careless
9. beneficial
10. worker

#### Activity 4 Table Completed:

| Roots | Meaning | Words | Meaning |
|-------|--------|--------|---------|
| auto | self | autobiography | story about oneself |
| dent | tooth | dentist | tooth doctor |
| liter | letter | literature | written material |
| man | hand | manual | hand-operated / handbook |
| neo | new | innovation | new invention |
| phon-, phono- | sound, voice | telephone | sound transmission device |
| scrib, script | write | manuscript | handwritten text |
| sol | sun | solar | sun-powered / related to sun |
| spec | look, see | spectacles | glasses for seeing |
| bio | life | antibiotic | kills bacteria |
| mar | see | marine | sea-related |

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