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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Level A
1. The suffix ‘ment’ can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
A) enrollment
B) enrolement
C) enrolment
2. The suffix ‘ment’ can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
A) entertainment
B) entertainnment
C) entertainement
3. The suffix ‘ment’ can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
A) fulfillment
B) fulment
C) fulfilment
4. Which suffix can be added to the verb rejoice to create a noun?
A) ing
B) ful
C) ment
5. Which suffix can be added to the verb laugh to create a noun?
A) ful
B) ter
C) ment
6. Which suffix can be added to the verb play to create an adjective?
A) al
B) ary
C) ful
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7. What suffix can be added to the verb care to create an adverb?
A) ly
B) ful
C) fully
8. What suffix can be added to the verb arrive to create a noun?
A) al
B) ment
C) sion
9. What suffix can be added to the verb please to create an adjective?
A) ful
B) ment
C) ant
10. What suffix can be added to the verb adorn to create a noun?
A) ness
B) ment
C) sion
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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Level B
1. How would you spell the word that means not comfortable?
A) uncumfortable
B) uncomfortible
C) uncomfortable
2. Which suffix can you not add to the word love to make a new word?
A) ly
B) ful
C) er
3. Which suffix can you add to the word sincere to make a new word?
A) ly
B) ful
C) er
4. If you misjudge someone, you:
A) don't judge them
B) judge them wrongly
C) judge them again
5. How do you spell the word that means before birth?
A) antinatal
B) andenatal
C) antenatal
6. How do you spell the word that means to not approve of something?
A) disapprove
B) disaprove
C) dissapprove
7. If you add the suffix ‘ly’ to the word like, what is the spelling of the new word?
A) likelly
B) likly
C) likely
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8. When you add the suffix ‘y’ to the word noise, what is the correct spelling?
A) nosey
B) noisy
C) noisey
9. When the suffix ‘ness’ is added to the word happy, what is the correct spelling?
A) happieness
B) happiness
C) happyness
10. How do you spell the word that means not responsible?
A) unresponsible
B) inresponsible
C) irresponsible
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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Level C
1. How would you spell the word that means spelled wrongly?
A) misspelled
B) mispelled
C) misspeled
2. How would you spell the word that means not necessary?
A) unecessary
B) uneccessary
C) unnecessary
3. How would you spell the word that means 'someone who plays music'?
A) musitian
B) musician
C) musision
4. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word comfort to make another word?
A) discomfortable
B) uncomfortly
C) uncomfortable
5. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word usual to make another word?
A) misusually
B) unusually
C) unusualment
6. When you add the suffix ‘est’ to the word pretty, what is the correct spelling?
A) prettiest
B) prettyest
C) prettest
7. What is the correct spelling for the word that means against society?
A) antisocial
B) antesocial
C) missocial
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8. Which of these words means not moral?
A) unmoral
B) immoral
C) inmoral
9. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word satisfy to make another word?
A) missatisfiable
B) unsatisfier
C) dissatisfied
10. How do you spell the word that means not natural?
A) unnatural
B) unatural
C) inatural
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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Answers
Level A
1. The suffix ‘ment’ can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
The correct answer is: C. When you add a suffix beginning with a consonant, to a verb ending
in a consonant, you don't change the verb ending. So enrol + ment becomes enrolment.
2. The suffix ‘ment can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
The correct answer is: A. When you add a suffix beginning with a consonant, to a verb ending
in a consonant, you don't change the verb ending. So entertain + ment becomes
entertainment.
3. The suffix ‘ment’ can be added to a verb to make a noun. Which of these nouns is spelled
correctly?
The correct answer is: C. When you add a suffix beginning with a consonant, to a verb ending
in a consonant, you don't change the verb ending. So fulfil + ment becomes fulfilment.
4. Which suffix can be added to the verb rejoice to create a noun?
The correct answer is: A. Adding the suffix ‘ing’ to rejoice creates the noun rejoicing.
5. Which suffix can be added to the verb laugh to create a noun?
The correct answer is: B. Adding the suffix ‘ter’ to laugh creates the noun laughter.
6. Which suffix can be added to the verb play to create an adjective?
The correct answer is: C. Adding the suffix ‘ful’ to play creates the adjective playful.
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7. What suffix can be added to the verb care to create an adverb?
The correct answer is: C. Adding the suffix ‘fully’ to the verb care creates the adverb carefully.
Adding ful creates an adjective.
8. What suffix can be added to the verb arrive to create a noun?
The correct answer is: A. Adding the suffix ‘al’ to arrive creates the noun arrival.
9. What suffix can be added to the verb please to create an adjective?
The correct answer is: C. Adding the suffix ‘ant’ to please creates the adjective pleasant.
When you add ant to please, it loses the e .
10. What suffix can be added to the verb adorn to create a noun?
The correct answer is: B. Adding the suffix ‘ment’ to the verb adorn gives the noun
adornment.
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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Level B
1. How would you spell the word that means not comfortable?
The correct answer is: C. uncomfortable.
2. Which suffix can you not add to the word love to make a new word?
The correct answer is: B. ‘ful’. Loveful isn't a proper word. Lovely and lover are proper words
3. Which suffix can you add to the word sincere to make a new word?
The correct answer is: A. ‘ly’ as it makes the word sincerely. The other two suffixes do not
make words.
4. If you misjudge someone, you:
The correct answer is: B. You judge them wrongly. The prefix ‘mis’ means wrong.
5. How do you spell the word that means before birth?
The correct answer is: C. antenatal. The prefix ‘ante’ means before.
6. How do you spell the word that means to not approve of something?
The correct answer is: A. disapprove.
7. If you add the suffix ‘ly’ to the word like, what is the spelling of the new word?
The correct answer is: C. likely.
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8.
When you add the suffix ‘y’ to the word noise, what is the correct spelling?
The correct answer is: B. noisy. When you add ‘y’ to noise, it loses the ‘e’.
9. When the suffix ‘ness’ is added to the word happy, what is the correct spelling?
The correct answer is: B. happiness. When you add ‘ness’ to a word ending in ‘y’, the ‘y’
changes to an ‘i’.
10. How do you spell the word that means not responsible?
The correct answer is: C. The word irresponsible means not responsible. The prefix ‘in’
changes to ‘ir’ before a root word beginning with ‘r’.
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Prefixes and suffixes quiz
Level C
1. How would you spell the word that means spelled wrongly?
The correct answer is: A. misspelled.
2. How would you spell the word that means not necessary?
The correct answer is: C. unnecessary.
3. How would you spell the word that means 'someone who plays music'?
The correct answer is: B. musician.
4. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word comfort to make another word?
The correct answer is: C. Uncomfortable is a real word made by adding the prefix ‘un’ and the
suffix ‘able’ to the root word comfort.
5. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word usual to make another word?
The correct answer is: B. Unusually is a real word, made from the prefix ‘un’, the root word
usual and the suffix ‘ly’.
6. When you add the suffix ‘est’ to the word pretty, what is the correct spelling?
The correct answer is: A. prettiest. When you add ‘est’ to a word ending in ‘y’, the ‘y’ changes
to an ‘i’.
7. What is the correct spelling for the word that means against society?
The correct answer is: A. antisocial. The prefix ‘anti’ means against.
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8. Which of these words means not moral?
The correct answer is: B. Immoral. When you add the prefix ‘in’ to a word beginning with ‘m’,
the ‘in’ changes to ‘im’.
9. What prefix and suffix can you add to the word satisfy to make another word?
The correct answer is: C. Dissatisfied is a real word, made from the prefix ‘dis’, the root satisfy
and the suffix ‘ed’.
10. How do you spell the word that means not natural?
The correct answer is: A. unnatural.
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