Prefixes and

Suffixes - What
are they?
Table of contents

01 What are prefixes and suffixes?

02 What is the difference?

03 Examples

04 Activities
01
What are prefixes
and suffixes?
Suffixes
Suffixes are a type of morpheme or morphological
particle that is added to the end of a word to modify,
complete or determine its meaning. These particles
combine with the root of the word to form new words with
different or more specific meanings.
Prefixes
Prefixes are a type of morpheme used to form new words by being
placed at the beginning of a lexical root. Unlike suffixes, prefixes have
greater lexical weight, meaning that they often have a meaning of
their own and can function as separate words. For example, the
prefixes "ex" (indicating that something is no longer) and "pre"
(meaning "before").
 What is the
02 difference?
 Prefixes or suffixes?
Prefixes are placed directly before the
lexical root of the word, while suffixes are
added after the root.
Prefixes and suffixes depend on the
word they modify. Prefixes alter the
meaning at the beginning and suffixes
alter the meaning at the end of the word.
Recognizing the meaning of a word
according to its suffix or prefix
To recognize the meaning of an unknown word, you can do so from the suffixes and
prefixes that compose the word:

1. Read the word

2. Identify the root
3. Identify the prefix or suffix
4. Connect the information with its meaning
Recognizing the meaning of a word
according to its suffix or prefix
For example with the word “Bakery”
1. Read the word “bakery”.
2. Search for the root of the word and in this case the one that is going to provide me with
part of the meaning. "Bake" which means "to cook inside an oven".
3. Identify the prefix and suffix. "-ery" as a suffix meaning "a type of place or work".
4. Relating both meanings: If the root "bak" comes from "bake" and "-ery" adds to the root
the meaning of "a type of place or work", "bakery" means "place where bread and cakes
are made".
03 Examples
 Examples of suffixes I

"-ist" "-less" "-ism" "-ment"

If you add it to a root Means “without”: Refers to attitudes, Indicates an action or a
you create adjectives Nameless, breathless, behavior or political or resulting product, state
that indicate people mindless or friendless. religious movements: or means:
who do a work: Feminism, Achievement,
Biologist, artist, christianism, altruism excitement,
cartoonist, specialist. or imperialism. government or
improvement.
 Examples of suffixes II

"-ly" "-ance" "-hood" "-ship"

Means the nature of Can indicate a Refers to a condition of Several uses. State or
something: quickly, condition, an action or being: Adulthood, condition; position or
slowly, easily or state: Performance, manhood, childhood office and skill:
simply maintenance, or motherhood Horsemanship (skill),
importance, elegance friendship (state),
lordship (office)
 Examples of prefixes I
Un- (e.g. unhappy, unfair, unusual): Negates the meaning of the base word.

(e.g. rewrite, rework, reconsider): Indicates repetition or a return to an original

Re- state.

(e.g. preheat, preview, prehistoric): Indicates that something happens before

Pre- another action or event.

(e.g. postgraduate, postwar, postscript): Indicates that something happens after

Post- another action or event.

Bi- (e.g. bicentennial, bilateral, bilingual): Indicates two or twice.

 Examples of prefixes II
Inter- (e.g. interact, international, interweave): Indicates between or among.

(e.g. misunderstand, misbehave, misplace): Indicates something that is done

Mis- incorrectly or wrongly.

Dis- (e.g. disagree, disconnect, disapprove): Indicates separation or negation.

(e.g. anti-inflammatory, anti-government, anti-racist): Indicates opposition or

Anti- against.

Auto- (e.g. automobile, autopilot, autobiography): Indicates self or automatic.

 04
Activities
Complete with the corresponding suffix
or prefix
Word Prefix/Suffix
Entertain Re

Believe ment

Arrange hood

Understand dis

Behave mis

Connect ism
Cross out the words with no prefix

Unhappy Cooked

Friend Recharge

Misunderstand Impossible

Building Writer

Preheat Distract
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