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Noun and adjective suffixes
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Match the words to their roots.
fearful
⇔
fear ✓
hurried
⇔
hurry ✓
contentment
⇔
content ✓
Select the nouns.
cat ✓
barked
garden ✓
hid
food ✓
Match the word to the suffix it contains.
punishment
⇔
-ment ✓
happiness
⇔
-ness ✓
joyous
⇔
-ous ✓
greener
⇔
-er ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The darknes engulfed them.
darkness ✓
darknes
darcknes
Select the adjective from this sentence. The happy child ran home.
happy ✓
child
ran
home
Select the adjective from this sentence. The cold ice hurt my skin.
the
cold ✓
ice
hurt
skin
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