-ment Suffix Year 2 SPaG Worksheets Mat

This bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using the ‘-ment’ suffix in Y2.

Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.

This primary resource is divided into three sections:

• Understand
  Rewrite the words, adding the suffix ‘-ment’ to each one, then underline the words ending in the suffix ‘-ment’ in each sentence
• Challenge
  Write three sentences, including one of the words ‘punishment’, ‘amazement’ and ‘disappointment’ in each. Then, complete the table
• Test
  Tick which sentence uses the word ‘disappointment’ correctly, then write a short newspaper report to go with the headline and picture given, and try to include the four words provided.

What is a suffix?

Suffixes are letters, or groups of letters, that are added to the end of words to make a new word or change the meaning of word.

Suffix examples

• -ing: eating, running, saying
• -ed: planned, walked, burned
• -er: teacher, trainer, farmer
• -est: highest, fastest, biggest
• -ier: mightier, zanier, funnier
• -ity: activity, equality, civility
• -less: useless, sleeveless, witless
• -ness: happiness, fitness, silliness

National Curriculum English programme of study links

• add prefixes and suffixes: using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs, using the prefix un–, and using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]
• read words containing common suffixes
• add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
• apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet
• use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them
• apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
• use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them

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