Suffix -ive

Suffix -ive means...

causing, making, or the quality of

examples.... active, secretive

Words with the -ive suffix are usually adjectives

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

"Those colorful flowers are very ___ for birds."

• attract

• attractive

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

"We must ___ the environment."

• protective

• protect

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

"I will ___ my house for Christmas."

• decorative

• decorate

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

"Samantha is very ___. She always does new things!"

• creative

• create

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

"Mike is always doing things, he is so ___."

• active

• act

Multiple Choice

Adding –ive to a word usually forms which part of speech?

• noun
• verb
• adjective
• adverb

Multiple Choice

The preschool class was becoming ________________, having been kept inside all day.

• collective

• collaborative

• inactive

Multiple Choice

The root word for the word "attractive" is ...

• attrate

• attract

• atract

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What is the root word of narrative?

• ive

• narrative

• narrativize

• narrate

Multiple Choice

Intense + ive =

• intenseive

• intensive

Multiple Choice

defense + ive =

• defensive

• defenseive

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The root word for the word "disruptive" is ...

• disrupted

• disrupt

• disrupting

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Where would you find a suffix?

• Before a base word

• After a base word

• It is the base word

Multiple Choice

What does the word creative mean?

• Being a person who creates things

• Studying the Earth

• Studying light

Multiple Choice

Which suffix to be added to the word "product"?

• ive

• ance

• ence

• ment