Prefixes and Suffixes

What is a prefix?

• a part added to the middle of a word
• root word
• a part added to the beginning of a word
• a part added to the end of a word

What is a suffix?

• a part added to the beginning of a word
• a part added to the middle of a word
• root word
• a part added to the end of a word

In following sentence what does the word helpless mean?

The puppy looked helpless all by itself.

• Alone

• Full of help

• Happy

• Without help

To remake something means to -

• make it three times

• make it prettier

• make less

• make it again

Colorful means -

• no color

• without color

• full of color

• missing color

The word "hopeless" means-

• full of hope

• without hope

• with hope

• getting hope

Match the following

• before

• re-

• without

• pre-

• full of

• -ful

• again

• -less

• below

• sub-

Recycle means -

• use more

• use less

• use again

• use none

The prefix "mis" in the word "mistake" means -

• right

• left

• wrong

• open

Does this word have a prefix, suffix, or both?

rewrite

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Both