Question

Suffixes: When confronting evil story characters show defi

Answer 1

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Choose a suffix from the chart to complete each word.

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4. When confronting evil, story characters show defi_____.

Answer:

The correct answer is When confronting evil, story characters show defiance.

Explanation:

A suffix is a grammatical element (affix) that is incorporated at the end of a lexical base giving rise to a derived word. Most come from Greek or Latin.

We can find two important types of suffixes:

• Derivational : it tell us what type of word it is.
• Inflectional : shows something about the grammar of the word.

Some examples of suffixes are:

-acy : privacy

-al: proposal

-ist: realist

-ment: engagement

-ness: sadness

-tion: solution