I’ve told you, fur doesn’t tan, even when you’re in the garden.
A suffix is a letter or group of letters that go on the end of a word. They change a words meaning.
‘Ing’ can change a noun into a verb. Like ‘gardening’.
Make yourself useful, ha, there you go.
Oh why do you have to destroy everything? The suffix ‘ed’ puts things in the past tense.
Oh now you’ve destroyed them.
Ah you know suffixes sometimes change the original words spelling, often doubling the last letter.
Like ‘trapped’…
Haha! Gotcha!
Suffixes
A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word and changes the word's meaning.
Sometimes they also change the original word's spelling. When adding a suffix you might have to double the last letter. For example when adding 'ed' to 'drop' you also double the p so it becomes 'dropped'.
Some suffixes have specific uses. Adding ‘ing’ can change a noun into a verb eg 'garden' to 'gardening'. While ‘ed’ can put a verb in the past tense eg 'jump' to 'jumped'.
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