Circling Suffixes Worksheet

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that is added to the end of a word.

Circle the word with the suffix in each group of words below.
Common suffixes include; er, or, ness, ment, ion, ist, ance, or ence.

starving, starvation, starve

starvation

1. roof roofs roofing

2. celebrates cheer celebration

3. artist arts art

4. brilliant smart brilliance

5. exciting excited excitable

6. absence absent tardy

7. big bigger large

8. fertile fertilization grow

9. back straight backward

10. telephone phone cell

11. move movement going

12. badly bad worse

13. prevent stop preventable

14. serve servant served

Circling Suffixes Worksheet

Answers:

1. roofing
2. celebration
3. artist
4. brilliance
5. excitable
6. absence
7. bigger
8. fertilization
9. backward
10. telephone
11. movement
12. badly
13. preventable
14. servant

Circling Suffixes Worksheet