Using and spelling suffixes: -ment and -ness | English

Starter quiz

Select the three words that contain the suffix '-less'.
- careless ✓
- happily
- hopeless ✓
- joyful
- pitiless ✓
Match the words with their word roots.
- fearful
  
  ⇔
  
  fearless ✓
- played
  
  ⇔
  
  playing ✓
- harmful
  
  ⇔
  
  harmless ✓
Select the nouns.
- dog ✓
- barked
- home ✓
- run
- bone ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: He was very cairless.
- careles
- careless ✓
- cairless
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She felt hopeles when they lost the match.
- hopless
- hopeles
- hopeless ✓
- hoples
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She was feerles and jumped off the high wall.
- fearles
- fearless ✓
- feerles
- feerless

Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: He brort his muddy shoes into the house.
- brout
- bought
- brought ✓
- brort
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: She said goodbye to evryone before leaving.
- everywon
- evereeone
- everyone ✓
Match the word to the suffix it contains.
- punishment
  
  ⇔
  
  ment ✓
- happiness
  
  ⇔
  
  ness ✓
- played
  
  ⇔
  
  ed ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The darknes was all around them.
- darcknes
- darknes
- darkness ✓
Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The apoyntment was at 9am.
- apointment
- appointment ✓
- appointiment
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The happynes spread around the team after they won the game.
- 'happiness' ✓

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A suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word.
If the suffix starts with a consonant letter, it is usually added without any change to the root word.
If a root word has more than one syllable and ends in a consonant + 'y', then 'y' is replaced by 'i' before the suffix.

Children may struggle to generate a sentence with these nouns in, such as improvement or darkness.

Model all the focus words simply and clearly in sentences to help demonstrate the meaning and their place within a sentence.

Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Noun - a naming word for people, places or things
Suffix - a group of letters added to the end of a root word