KS1 Spelling | Suffix LY Quiz for Year 2 Students

Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Suffix ly (Questions)

This 'Suffix ly' spelling quiz will test KS1 children on spellings that can have this addition. The words used have been taken from and added to those suggested in the National Curriculum.

Certain words can have the letters ‘ly’ added to the end of them to change their meaning. This suffix means you should do it this way, so if a word has that addition it means do it the way the root word says. See if you can get 10 out of 10 in this spelling quiz.

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He added the sums up quite ____.

[ ]	baddily
[ ]	badily
[ ]	badly
[ ]	baddly

They ____ put their heads together and posed for the camera.

[ ]	happyly
[ ]	hapyly
[ ]	happly
[ ]	happily

She ____ reminded him to have a bath.

[ ]	loudly
[ ]	lowdly
[ ]	loadly
[ ]	louddly

He ____ made his way across the leaf.

[ ]	sloly
[ ]	slowly
[ ]	slowely
[ ]	slowley

They ____ raced around the track.

[ ]	qickly
[ ]	qurickly
[ ]	quickly
[ ]	qwuickly

You have to stroke them ____.

[ ]	sofly
[ ]	softly
[ ]	soffly
[ ]	sofftly

Enter the library ____.

[ ]	kwiately
[ ]	quiately
[ ]	quitely
[ ]	quietly

She thought this dish could be cooked quite ____.

[ ]	easily
[ ]	eesily
[ ]	easely
[ ]	easeily

He rather ____ rolled his eyes at her.

[ ]	roodly
[ ]	roodley
[ ]	rudely
[ ]	ruddely

10.

____ she found a four-leaf clover.

[ ]	Luccly
[ ]	Lukkly
[ ]	Luckily
[ ]	Luckly

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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Suffix ly (Answers)

He added the sums up quite ____.

[ ]	baddily
[ ]	badily
[x]	badly
[ ]	baddly

All you need to do here is add 'ly' onto the end of the word 'bad'.

They ____ put their heads together and posed for the camera.

[ ]	happyly
[ ]	hapyly
[ ]	happly
[x]	happily

If a word ends with a 'y', like happy, then you change the 'y' to an 'i' then add the suffix.

She ____ reminded him to have a bath.

[x]	loudly
[ ]	lowdly
[ ]	loadly
[ ]	louddly

This is telling you how she did it, she said it in a loud way.

He ____ made his way across the leaf.

[ ]	sloly
[x]	slowly
[ ]	slowely
[ ]	slowley

Did you know, some people eat snails!

They ____ raced around the track.

[ ]	qickly
[ ]	qurickly
[x]	quickly
[ ]	qwuickly

Race drivers participate in something called F1, which stands for Formula 1.

You have to stroke them ____.

[ ]	sofly
[x]	softly
[ ]	soffly
[ ]	sofftly

The root word is soft and we just add 'ly' to it.

Enter the library ____.

[ ]	kwiately
[ ]	quiately
[ ]	quitely
[x]	quietly

Here you need to spell the word quiet then just add 'ly' to the end of the word.

She thought this dish could be cooked quite ____.

[x]	easily
[ ]	eesily
[ ]	easely
[ ]	easeily

Here the word is easy, so you need to replace the 'y' for an 'i' then add 'ly'.

He rather ____ rolled his eyes at her.

[ ]	roodly
[ ]	roodley
[x]	rudely
[ ]	ruddely

It is considered very rude to roll your eyes at somebody.

10.

____ she found a four-leaf clover.

[ ]	Luccly
[ ]	Lukkly
[x]	Luckily
[ ]	Luckly

Here the root word is lucky not luck. This means we need to take the 'y' and change it for 'ily'.