Grade 7 ELA quiz on common suffixes with answers

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔍 Suffixes: Word parts added to the end of a word (root word) to change its meaning.
• 📝 -able/-ible: Means 'able to be' (e.g., readable, visible).
• 🌱 -er/-or: Means 'one who' or 'that which' (e.g., teacher, actor).
• ✨ -ness: Turns a word into a noun, meaning 'the state of' (e.g., happiness).
• 🍎 -less: Means 'without' (e.g., fearless).
• 🌟 -ly: Often turns a word into an adverb (e.g., quickly).
• 🧱 -ful: Means 'full of' (e.g., beautiful).

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Which suffix means 'able to be'?
   1. -ness
   2. -less
   3. -able
   4. -ly
2. Which word means 'without fear'?
   1. Fearful
   2. Fearer
   3. Fearless
   4. Fearness
3. Which suffix turns a word into a noun, meaning 'the state of'?
   1. -ful
   2. -ly
   3. -er
   4. -ness
4. Which suffix often creates an adverb?
   1. -able
   2. -ly
   3. -ness
   4. -less
5. Which word describes 'one who teaches'?
   1. Teachable
   2. Teachness
   3. Teacher
   4. Teachly
6. Which suffix means 'full of'?
   1. -less
   2. -ness
   3. -ful
   4. -ly
7. Which word means 'able to be seen'?
   1. Visibleness
   2. Visibly
   3. Visible
   4. Viser