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Exploring Suffixes: -ify and -ee

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Exploring Suffixes: -ify and -ee

Read each question carefully. Use the meanings and spelling patterns of -ify and -ee to complete the activities. In matching, write the correct letter beside each word.

Understand the suffixes

1.What is a suffix, and where is it added to a word?

2.Which meaning is most often associated with the suffix -ify, as in clarify?

a person who receives something
to make or become
without or lacking
full of

3.In words such as interviewee, what does the suffix -ee commonly identify?

a person who receives or is affected by an action
to make something happen
a place where something is kept
a person who performs an action

Spot and split the suffix

4.Select every word that uses the suffix -ify to mean “make or become”.

classify
committee
magnify
guarantee
purify
referee
identify
journey

5.Select every word that ends with the suffix -ee and names a person who receives or experiences something.

payee
terrify
escapee
simplify
addressee
beautify
nominee
butterfly

6.Split each word into its base or stem and suffix: employee, clarify and trustee. Show the suffix in each answer.

7.Split each word into its base or stem and suffix: notify, refugee and beautify. Show the suffix in each answer.

Match words to meanings

8.Match each word with its meaning. Write the correct letter beside each word.

1. payee
2. simplify
3. escapee
4. purify
5. interviewee
6. classify

C. a person who has escaped
F. to arrange things into groups
E. a person who answers questions in an interview
A. to make something pure
B. a person who receives a payment
D. to make something easier

Build and use words

9.Add the suffix -ify to each base word, making any spelling changes needed to form a correctly spelt word: intense, solid, pure and simple.

10.Complete each word by adding -ee: a person who is absent (absent__), a person who is interviewed (interview__), and a person who is nominated (nomin__).

11.Complete each sentence with a word ending in -ify or -ee. Use the clue in brackets: The new received a staff pass. (person employed by an organisation)

12.Complete each sentence with a word ending in -ify or -ee. Use the clue in brackets: Please your answer with a reason. (give a good reason for)

13.Complete each sentence with a word ending in -ify or -ee. Use the clue in brackets: The referee asked the players to their positions before the restart. (make clear)

14.Complete each sentence with a word ending in -ify or -ee. Use the clue in brackets: The gave evidence about receiving the parcel. (person to whom it was addressed)

15.Write an original sentence that uses a word ending in -ify correctly.

16.Write an original sentence that uses a word ending in -ee correctly.