The best way to locate a suffix isby checking the parts of the word, a suffix is a group of letter that adds to teh end of a root word to give it a new meaning, we can have different kinds of suffixes.
*Verb suffixes (eg. say- saying)
*Noun suffixes (eg. happy - happiness
*Adjective suffixes (eg. help - helpful)
*Adverb suffixes (eg. quick-quickly)
*Profession suffixes (eg- teach-teacher)
*Nacionality suffixes (eg. America- American)
To mention some
"You ought not to think an hour upon the matter, but to spring to action at once.
The purpose of the words "hour" and "spring" is:
A) Most of the sentences contain comma splices.
A comma splice is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses. The comma is followed by a conjunction.
Two independent clauses:
1) You ought not to think an hour upon the matter.
2) You ought to spring to action at once.
conjunction used is BUT.
You can cancel out pleased and hurt as they are wrong answers.
I think answer 1 is correct. The attitude, or "atmosphere" of text is set to the author's desired theme.
Humility is an impotant character trait