Reading- Suffixes ic, ive, & ism

What does the suffix- ic mean?

• associated with- example

  athletic: associated with talent as an athlete

• doing something- showing support for someone: supportive

He is an ____________ person.

• athlete

• athletism

• athletive

• athletic

Associated with being real:

• realist

• realize

• realistic

My little sister is very __________ when she doesn't get her way

• drama

• dramatic

• dramaism

• dramaive

The suffix- ive means:

• doing something

• act or process

A person doing competing:

• competitive

• competes

• competed

Doing something in a forceful way:

• aggress

• aggressed

• aggressive

• aggressed

My brothers can be too _________ sometimes when they play football against each other!

• aggression

• aggressive

• aggressed

• aggressism

A word for doing something again and again- repeat: (ive)

• repetitive

• repeated

• repeats

The word that is associated with doing something to disagree: (ive)

• argue

• arguments

• argumentative