All About Affixes

​Roots and affixes

Vocabulary strategy

Objectives:

Use common ,grade appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clue to the meaning.

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By: Abdel ​Rahman Mohammed

G​: 8

Braem Alain Private School​

​Roots are the basic form of a word. When adding more letters to a root, it forms a new word.

Ex:- ​act is a root.

Action is a word made up from the root act.​

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​Roots

Multiple Choice

Recognize the root from the following words.

• reading

• read

• reader

• ready

Multiple Choice

Try to find the root of the following words.

Malfunctioning

• function

• mal

• Malfunction

• fun

​Nice working!

You did great in those questions, but have you noticed the difference between a word and its root?

Think about the last question, the word malfunctioning is different than mal alone. Here, these more letters included are what we call, Affixes.

Subject | Subject

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​Affixes

Affixes are some word addons, which can change the root to any new word. When we see the word Affixes, you might might remember the word fix. That's it! Fix is the root of Af-fix-es. The af- and the -es are examples of affixes.

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​Suffixes are affixes that are attached to the end of the root, like:-

​quick-ly

Manage-ment​

​suffixes

Prefixes are affixes that are attached to the beginning of the root, like:-

By-cycle

Mid-night​

​Prefixes

​Affixes are divided into 2 types

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Multiple Choice

Where is the affix that means opposite of in:-

Disabled

• ed

• dis

• able

• disabled

Multiple Choice

what is the affix that means the person who do or doer in the word fighter is

• ght

• fight

• er

• r

Multiple Choice

what does the prefix non- means in he following sentence:-

He says nonsense, nothing has a meaning in it.

• not

• nothing

• Opisite of

• doer

Multiple Choice

What does the suffix -ant means in the following sentence:-

The asastiant will help you in this glitch.

• a person

• opposite of

• so much

• across

Multiple Select

Choose all affixes in this sentence:-

The rechecked will unlock the quiz so no one will be unable to submit it.

• re

• checker

• Un

• cker

Multiple Select

Chose the words that can complete this sentence:-

I have _______ the quiz.

• Transfered

• disabled

• Overlapsed

• Unlocked

• Respectable

Multiple Choice

Where is the affix in the word submit ?

• Sub

• Mit

• su

• It

• No Affixes

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