Getting Meanings through Word Analysis: Suffixes

You sometimes come across words which have been derived from their roots by adding certain structures like prefixes and suffixes.

In your earlier years of schooling, you must have been done with exercises and development activites on the use of prefixes. In this lesson, you will deal with deriving words through the use of suffixes. A suffix added to the end of a root word. We have, for example, a verb that becomes a noun by adding a suffix. This is called a noun derivative. A noun that becomes an adjective by adding a suffix is called an adjective derivative. These are but few ways by which we can identify how words are derived.