Morphology is a powerful teaching tool for developing vocabulary knowledge and building spelling mastery. Many words in the English language have multiple morphemes (word parts that carry meaning) - for example, the word inflexible is comprised of a base (flex), prefix (in) and suffix (ible).
Over 40 different suffixes are included, with the suffix meaning, origin and word examples.
Suffixes so far included:
- s
- es
- ing
- ed
- er
- y
- ly
- ful
- less
- est
- ness
- ment
- able
- ist
- ous
- ion
- ish
- dom
- en
- some
- ward
- ship
- ible
- age
- or
- ise
- ure
- ite
- ant
- ate
- al
- ic
- ice
- ine
- ent
- an
- ian
- ary
- ify
- ism
- ify