Quiz

Prefixes and suffixes

Level A

Circle the right answer for each question.

1) Where do you find a prefix?

A) at the beginning of a word

B) at the end of a word

C) in the middle of a word

2) Where do you find a suffix?

A) at the beginning of a word

B) at the end of a word

C) in the middle of a word

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3) What is the prefix in all these words?

dislike distaste
dislike distaste disorder
disorder

A) taste

B) dis

C) dist

4) What is the prefix in all these words?

preview prepay
preview prepay prewash
prewash

A) pre

B) wash

C) prep

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5) What is the suffix in all these words?

calling
calling telling
telling feeling
feeling

A) ell

B) eel

C) ing

6) What is the suffix in all these words?

careful
careful awful hopeful
awful hopeful

A) ful

B) car

C) ref

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Quiz

Prefixes and suffixes

Level B

Circle the right answer for each question.

1) Which of these words has a prefix?

A) disqualify

B) careful

C) calling

2) Which of these words has a suffix?

A) mistake

B) careful

C) disprove

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3) Which of these is the prefix 'mis' more likely to mean?

A) brilliantly

B) badly

4) What does the prefix 'super' mean?

A) above

B) below

5) What suffix could you add to 'mind' to make a new word?

A) ful

B) ness

C) able

6) What prefix could you add to 'take' to make a new word?

A) dis

B) super

C) mis

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Prefixes and suffixes

Level C

Circle the right answer for each question.

1) What prefix can be added to all these words?

take
take fire behave
fire behave

A) pre

B) mis

C) super

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2) What suffix can be added to all these words?

care
care leg cord
leg cord

A) able

B) ful

C) less

3) What does the Latin word pre mean?

A) after

B) under

C) before

4) What does the Latin word sub mean?

A) after

B) under

C) before

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5) Where could you find out the history of a word?

A) phonebook

B) cookbook

C) dictionary

6) Which of these words has a prefix and a suffix?

A) unsporting

B) superman

C) madness

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Quiz - answers

Prefixes and suffixes

Level A

1) Where do you find a prefix?

The correct answer is A. You find a prefix at the beginning of a word.

2) Where do you find a suffix?

The correct answer is B. You find a suffix at the end of a word.

3) What is the prefix in all these words?

dislike distaste disorder

The correct answer is B. The prefix in all these words is 'dis'.

4) What is the prefix in all these words?

preview prepay prewash

The correct answer is A. The prefix in all these words is 'pre'.

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5) What is the suffix in all these words?
calling telling feeling

The correct answer is C. The suffix in all these words is 'ing'.

6) What is the suffix in all these words?

careful awful hopeful

The correct answer is A. The suffix in all these words is 'ful'.

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Prefixes and suffixes

Level B

1) Which of these words has a prefix?

The correct answer is A. The right answer is disqualify. The prefix is

'dis'. The other two words have suffixes.

2) Which of these words has a suffix?

The correct answer is B. The right answer is 'careful'. The suffix is

'ful'. The other two words have prefixes.

3) Which of these is the prefix 'mis' more likely to mean?

The correct answer is B. The prefix 'mis' means badly, wrongly or

unsuitably.

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4) What does the prefix 'super' mean?

The correct answer is A. The prefix 'super' means above.

5) What suffix could you add to 'mind' to make a new word?

The correct answer is A. You can add the suffix 'ful' to mind to make
mindful.

6) What prefix could you add to 'take' to make a new word?

The correct answer is C. You can add the prefix 'mis' to take to make
mistake.

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Prefixes and suffixes

Level C

1) What prefix can be added to all these words?

The correct answer is B. You can add the prefix 'mis' to take
(mistake), fire (misfire) and behave (misbehave).

2) What suffix can be added to all these words?

The correct answer is C. You can add the suffix 'less' to care
(careless), leg (legless) and cord (cordless).

3) What does the Latin word pre mean?

The correct answer is C. The Latin word 'pre' means before.

4) What does the Latin word sub mean?

The correct answer is B. The Latin word 'sub' means under.

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5) Where could you find out the history of a word?

The correct answer is C. You can find out the history of a word in a
dictionary. It comes after the meaning.

6) Which of these words has a prefix and a suffix?

The correct answer is A. The word unsporting is the right answer. Its
prefix is un- and the suffix is -ing.

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