Question 1

What is a prefix?

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A word segment that changes the meaning of a word when added to the beginning of a word

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A word added to the ending of a word and changes its meaning

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A word added to the beginning of a word and changes its meaning

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A word added to the middle of a word and changes its meaning

Question 2

What are 3 examples of Prefixes?

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Sub, Com, and Ob

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To, Un, Mod

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Re, Pa, Con

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Di, Lo, Hin

Question 3

What is a Suffix

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A word segment that changes the meaning of a word when added to the ending of a word.

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A word that changes the meaning of a word when added to the beginning

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A word segment that makes a word opposite when added to the end of the word

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A word that doesn't change the meaning of the word, but it makes it longer.

Question 4

How can you tell the difference between SION and TION?

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Sometimes you can tell when to use it, most of the time you have to memorize the word.

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When the last letter is a vowel use TION.

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When the last letter ends in a l, drop the l and use SION.

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You never can tell the difference, you have the guess.

Question 5

When adding a suffix to a word that ends in e, what should you do?

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Drop the e

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Change the e to an I

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Keep the e

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Do not put the suffix

Question 6

The prefixes un, dis, and in can create words that

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are opposite of its root word.

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are different from its root word

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are longer than its root word

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are similar to its root word

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