Roots/Suffixes/Affixes

What is a prefix?

• Comes after the word to change it's meaning.

• Comes before the word to change it's meaning.

• Can stand alone in a word.

• It doesn't exist.

What is a suffix?

• A word by itself.

• In the middle of the word.

• Comes after the word to change it's meaning.

• Comes before the word to change it's meaning.

DIS-

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Root

• After

Which word contains a suffix?

• Disapprove

• Friendly

• Reappear

• Overexaggerate

Which word contains a prefix?

• Inducement

• Kindness

• Reappear

• Weakest

-ible

• Can be done

• Again and Again

• Not

• Full of

-ness

• Too much

• State or condition of

• Back

• Not

Re-

• The act of

• Comparative

• Again and Again

• Full of

Abandonment

• Prefix= Abandon

• Suffix= Abandon

• Prefix= ment

• Suffix- ment

Weakest

• Prefix=Weak

• Prefix=Est

• Suffix= est

• Prefix= est