Grade 1 English | Affixes, meanings of prefixes and suffixes

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English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 1 Language - Affixes (Questions)

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This quiz is about affixes which include both common prefixes and suffixes. Affixes help students figure out the meanings of unknown words. This quiz contains the prefixes and suffixes that pertain to first grade. The students will determine the meaning of the words based on the meanings of these common prefixes and suffixes. They will also choose the word that best fits into the sentence by using the meanings of the prefixes and suffixes in those words.

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Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
hopped

[ ]	to not hop
[ ]	to hop in the past
[ ]	a process to hop
[ ]	to hop before

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
pretest

[ ]	to test before
[ ]	to not test
[ ]	more than one test
[ ]	the process of a test

Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
lunches

[ ]	to eat lunch in the past
[ ]	to not eat lunch
[ ]	to eat lunch before
[ ]	more than one lunch

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
nonstop

[ ]	to stop before
[ ]	to not stop
[ ]	to stop in the past
[ ]	to stop before

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
prepay

[ ]	to pay for many things
[ ]	to not pay
[ ]	to pay before
[ ]	a process to pay

Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
blowing

[ ]	the process to blow something
[ ]	to not blow something
[ ]	to blow something in the past
[ ]	to blow many things

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
This milk is ____ so it will make me skinny.

[ ]	fats
[ ]	fatting
[ ]	prefat
[ ]	nonfat

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
I am ____ to the store now.

[ ]	prerun
[ ]	runned
[ ]	running
[ ]	nonrun

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
This morning, the girl ____ the flowers to the paper.

[ ]	gluing
[ ]	preglue
[ ]	glued
[ ]	nonglue

10.

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
The woman poured coffee into three ____.

[ ]	mugs
[ ]	mugged
[ ]	mugging
[ ]	nonmug

English Language: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Grade 1 Language - Affixes (Answers)

Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
hopped

[ ]	to not hop
[x]	to hop in the past
[ ]	a process to hop
[ ]	to hop before

The "ed" ending refers to something happening in the past.

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
pretest

[x]	to test before
[ ]	to not test
[ ]	more than one test
[ ]	the process of a test

The prefix "pre" means before so this word would mean to test before the actual test.

Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
lunches

[ ]	to eat lunch in the past
[ ]	to not eat lunch
[ ]	to eat lunch before
[x]	more than one lunch

The suffix "s" and "es" mean that the word is plural or more than one thing.

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
nonstop

[ ]	to stop before
[x]	to not stop
[ ]	to stop in the past
[ ]	to stop before

The prefix "non" means not, so nonstop means to not stop.

Based on the prefix, what does the word mean?
prepay

[ ]	to pay for many things
[ ]	to not pay
[x]	to pay before
[ ]	a process to pay

The prefix "pre" means before so the word "prepay" means to pay before something happens.

Based on the suffix, what does the word mean?
blowing

[x]	the process to blow something
[ ]	to not blow something
[ ]	to blow something in the past
[ ]	to blow many things

The suffix "ing" means the process of doing something so "blowing" means the process to blow something.

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
This milk is ____ so it will make me skinny.

[ ]	fats
[ ]	fatting
[ ]	prefat
[x]	nonfat

To be skinny, someone would need something that does not have fat in it.

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
I am ____ to the store now.

[ ]	prerun
[ ]	runned
[x]	running
[ ]	nonrun

Since this person is going now to the store, she or he is in the process of running.

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
This morning, the girl ____ the flowers to the paper.

[ ]	gluing
[ ]	preglue
[x]	glued
[ ]	nonglue

This happened in the past which was this morning, so the child glued the flowers to the paper.

10.

Choose the word that best fits into the blank. Use what you know about prefixes and suffixes.
The woman poured coffee into three ____.

[x]	mugs
[ ]	mugged
[ ]	mugging
[ ]	nonmug

Adding an "s" or "es" to a noun means that there is more than one mug.