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Learning Objective: Students will learn how to add prefixes and suffixes to root words to create new words.

PREFIX AND SUFFIX

A prefix is generally a letter or a group of letters which appears at the beginning of any word. It can also change the original
meaning of any word. Like organized and disorganized , here “dis” is the prefix of the word organised.

Examples:

Bicycle

uncomfortable
While suffix is also a letter or a group of letters, but it appears at the end of any word. It is used to change the word so that it
can fit into a sentence grammatically. Like forget and forgetful “ful” is the suffix here.

Comfortable

helpful

Collectively, if suffix and prefix are combined then it is known as affixes. Both prefix and suffix are not words in general,
but the addition of either of them can make or break a word. When you use only suffix or prefix in a sentence than it would
not make sense. To denote the incompletion of a word, we put a hyphen to denote them.

Learning Outcome: Students are able to add prefixes and suffixes to root words to create new words.