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Reading and Use of English: Exam Task
Reading and Use of English: Exam Task
Suffixes
READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
Exam task
1 Answer these questions about each of the C1-level words
in the box. For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given
in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that
1 What part of speech is it? e.g. comparable – adjective, fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the
2 What suffix does it have? e.g. -able, beginning (0).
3 What word is it formed from? e.g. compare
Example: 0 SUBSTANTIAL
4 Are there any other spelling changes to that word? e.g.
drops final ‘e’
5 What part of speech is that word? e.g. verb