Let's learn AFFIXES for day today activities

 

Do you know about the affixes?

Introduction

By P.G.S.P.Kumari

The above letters have no meaning when we take them in isolation. Only if we add them to the begging or end of the word we can make a meaningful word. If we add them to the begging of the word, it is called prefix. If we add them to the end of the word, it is called suffix.Affixes are small word particles, usually only a few letters, added to a root word to change its meaning or grammatical properties. Most affixes are one or two syllables, and some like –s and -es are just sounds

·         Suffixes are                                                                                                                                                                                       -ment , -ness , -ble, -age, - ist, -tive ,  - crasy,  -cial , -ship, -ful, -ive,  -ant,-sion, -cy , -less ,  -aria,  - ware,  -cide,  -age   ,  -ate, -sm,      -ing-eb  , -ee,  -crasy,  -ble , -ent, -hood,  -cycle 

   Prefixes are

    Un, dis, in, ir, il, non , ex, pre, re, anti, ad

Examples for suffixes

Suffix	Example words
Ment	Government, management
Ness	Kindness, helplessness
Ly	Productively, optically
Able	Comfortable, maintainable
Cial	Financial, commercial
Ship	Friendship, membership
Tion	Extinction, interception
Sion	Cohesion, profession
Cy	Tendency, privacy
Ful	Faithful, cheerful
Less	Careless, harmless
Tive	Positive, superlative
Cide	Suicide, pesticide
Crasy	Democracy, aristocracy
Age	Pilgrimage, passage
Ive	Expensive, preservative
Ist	Specialist, communist
Ant	Applicant, servant
Ent	Confident, competent

 

Examples for prefixes

Prefix	Example words
Un	Uncomfortable, unknown
Dis	Disagree, disgust
In	Indecent, insure
Ir	Irrelevant, irresponsible
Il	Illfavoured, illtreat
Non	Nonbreakable, nonissue
Ex	Exchange, exhaust
Pre	Preview, preparatory
Re	Reunion, recolonized
Anti	Antibiotic
Ad	adopt, adverb