What are suffixes and how are they used in Class 5 grammar?

Suffixes are word endings that change the word’s meaning or part of speech, like -ful, -ness, -ment.

Why is it important for students to learn suffixes in English?

Understanding suffixes helps with spelling, comprehension, and vocabulary expansion.

What is a fun way to teach suffixes at home?

Create suffix puzzles or match root words with suffixes to form new words.

Class 5 Suffix Practice – -ful, -ness, -ly, -ment

Word Builders: Mastering Suffixes – Class 5

This Grade 5 worksheet introduces students to the power of suffixes like -ful, -ness, -ly, and -ment. It helps learners transform base words, explore how word endings change parts of speech, and apply suffix-based vocabulary through matching, sentence building, and puzzles.

Why Suffixes Matter in Grammar?

Learning suffixes supports vocabulary growth and deeper grammar understanding:
1. Suffixes help form nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and more.
2. They make word formation easier during writing and spelling.
3. Students learn how words evolve to suit different grammar needs.
4. They improve sentence construction through suffix-based expression.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This word formation worksheet includes five creative exercises:

🔗 Exercise 1 – Match Base Words to Suffix Forms
Students draw lines from base words like *joy*, *empty*, *achieve* to their correct suffixed forms such as *joyful*, *emptiness*, *achievement*.

✍️ Exercise 2 – Identify Base Words and Suffixes
Children complete a table by breaking down suffixed words like *helpful*, *happiness*, *sadness*, and *movement* into their base word and suffix.

🧩 Exercise 3 – Suffix Word Search
Students search and highlight words ending in -ful, -ness, -ly, and -ment in a fun visual puzzle. Examples include *improvement*, *quickly*, *happiness*, *careful*, *movement*.

🖊️ Exercise 4 – Suffix Use in Paragraphs
Students identify and circle suffix-based words in a descriptive paragraph, then use those same words in their own meaningful sentences. Words include *happily*, *kindness*, *movement*, *beautiful*.

🧠 Exercise 5 – Crossword Puzzle with Suffix Clues
Students solve a crossword using clues like “Filled with hope” or “Screamed with ___” to identify suffixed words like *hopeful*, *kindness*, *softly*, and *darkness*.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Match Base Words
1. joy → joyful
2. empty → emptiness
3. mad → madly
4. merry → merriment
5. duty → dutiful
6. lonely → loneliness
7. different → differently
8. achieve → achievement
9. base → basement
10. firm → firmly

Exercise 2 – Base Word & Suffix
1. help – ful
2. happy – ness
3. quick – ly
4. enjoy – ment
5. beauty – ful
6. sad – ness
7. soft – ly
8. move – ment
9. care – ful
10. kind – ness

Exercise 3 – Word Search Words
helpful, happiness, quickly, amusement, enjoyment, movement, improvement, kindness, carefully, darkness

Exercise 4 – Paragraph Suffix Words & Sentences
- happily → She skipped happily to school.
- beautiful → The flower is very beautiful.
- kindness → He showed kindness to the puppy.
- movement → The movement of the flag was gentle.

Exercise 5 – Crossword Puzzle
Across:
2. happiness
5. kindly
7. loudly
8. darkness
Down:
1. hopeful
3. sadness
4. faithful
6. less