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Know Your Suffixes: -able

In this worksheet, students consider the meaning of words with the suffix -able and practise spelling them.

'Know Your Suffixes: -able' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 3 11+ worksheets

Curriculum topic:   English

Curriculum subtopic:   Spelling: Prefixes & Suffixes

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Worksheet Overview

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word. Knowing what a suffix means can help us understand new words.

 

For example, the suffix -able means 'able to' or 'capable of'.

Clothes that are able to be washed are washable.

A mattress that can be inflated is inflatable.

 

If the word ends in -e then we drop the -e before we add the suffix.

value / valuable

use / usable

 

If the word ends in -y then we usually change it to 'i' before we add the suffix.

deny / deniable

magnify / magnifiable

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