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The four most frequent prefixes account for 97 percent of prefixed words in printed school English. From Teaching Reading Sourcebook: For Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, and Linda Gutlohn. © 2000 by CORE. Reproduced by permission of Arena Press. *Most frequent.
Knowing what suffixes mean will help students figure out the meaning of the word as a whole. Let’s take a look at a few more examples of some common suffixes. On the chalkboard, add the suffix -er (agent; instrument) to the word paint to form the word painter. Then have students add the following suffixes to the words below.
Teach only the most commonly used suffixes. The chart on page 215 shows the 20 most frequent suffixes appearing in words in the Word Frequency Book (Carroll, Davies, and Richman, 1971). The suffixes s, es, ed, and ing account for almost two-thirds of the words. The suffixes s and es are used to form the plurals of most nouns.
Common Suffixes Suffix Meaning Example-ant, -ent one who assistant, resident-able, -ible can be done capable, gullible-ed past-tense verb stopped-en made of wooden-er one who faster-est comparative farthest-ful full of careful-ing present participle verb form looking-ist person who artist-ity, -ty state of activity
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