Class 8 Prefix and Suffix Word Builder
Class 8 Prefix and Suffix Word Builder
Word Builders: Prefix and Suffix Mastery for Class 8
This comprehensive Class 8 worksheet helps students strengthen word formation using prefixes and suffixes. With engaging, structured tasks, learners build vocabulary and understand how word parts transform meaning and grammar.
Why Prefixes and Suffixes Matter in Class 8?
This worksheet helps learners:
1. Expand vocabulary through word-building skills.
2. Understand how prefixes and suffixes change word meaning and form.
3. Apply grammar knowledge to write with clarity and precision.
What’s Inside This Worksheet?
This worksheet features five well-paced, creative activities:
🧱 Exercise 1 – Root Word Meaning Table
Students identify common Latin root words (e.g., *tract*, *spect*, *mit*) and expand them with prefixes/suffixes to explore meaning.
🔤 Exercise 2 – Prefix + Base Word + Suffix
Students add both a prefix and suffix to a word, then use it in a sentence. Example: *appear* → *disappearance*
🧩 Exercise 3 – Add the Affix
Learners add the correct prefix or suffix to a base word (with spelling changes if needed). Example: *make* + *-ing* → *making*
✍️ Exercise 4 – Form a Noun
Students add suffixes like *-tion*, *-ity*, and *-ence* to base words to form nouns. Example: *educate* → *education*
🧠 Exercise 5 – Word Form Chart
For words like *quick* and *create*, learners complete a table showing noun, adjective, and adverb forms using affixes.
✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)
Exercise 1 – Sample Expansions (Answers may vary)
tract → attract, traction
dict → predict, dictionary
spect → inspect, spectator
mit → admit, transmission
cred → credible, incredible
scribe → describe, scribble
aqua → aquarium, aquatic
Exercise 2 – Sample Words + Sentences
1. dislike / likely → *unlikely* – It is unlikely that it will rain today.
2. act → *inactive* – She is inactive today.
3. decide → *indecisive* – He is indecisive about the movie.
4. appear → *disappearance* – The magician’s disappearance amazed us.
5. trust → *mistrustful* – He is mistrustful of strangers.
6. peace → *peacefully* – They lived peacefully in the village.
7. approve → *disapproval* – The teacher showed disapproval for late homework.
Exercise 3 – Add Prefix/Suffix
1. making
2. stopped
3. happily
4. decision
5. disappear
6. beautiful
7. runner
8. courageous
9. thermal
10. interrupt
Exercise 4 – Form Nouns
1. education
2. curiosity
3. attention
4. activity
5. absence
6. creation
7. possibility
8. patience
9. maturity
10. information
11. completion
Exercise 5 – Word Form Table (Sample Answers)
| Base | Noun | Adjective | Adverb |
|-----------|-------------|---------------|----------------|
| quick | quickness | quick | quickly |
| create | creation | creative | creatively |
| brave | bravery | brave | bravely |
| help | help | helpful | helpfully |
| courage | courage | courageous | courageously |
| care | care | careful | carefully |
| patient | patience | patient | patiently |
| success | success | successful | successfully |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Prefixes are added to the beginning (e.g., "unhappy", "replay"); suffixes go at the end (e.g., "careful", "kindness"). They change meaning and word type, helping with vocabulary and word formation.
They help students decode unfamiliar words and form new ones. For instance, “disagree” is formed by adding “dis-” to “agree.” This builds awareness of how English words are structured.
Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, mis-. Suffixes: -ful, -ness, -able, -less, -ment. Practice tasks include identifying roots and changing word forms using these affixes.
