ATI TEAS 7 FULL STUDY GUIDE (SMART EDITION): CONVENTIONS OF STANDARD ENGLISH 2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers | 100% Solved

ATI TEAS 7 FULL STUDY GUIDE (SMART
EDITION): CONVENTIONS OF
STANDARD ENGLISH 2024/2025 Exam
Questions and Answers | 100% Solved



What is a suffix? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A word part that is added to the ending

of a root word.




A suffix changes the meaning and spelling of words.




Examples:

paint --> painter

real --> reality

real --> realism

What does adding -er, -ist, or -or change the root to mean? - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Doer or performer.




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,Example:

paint --> painter

abolition --> abolitionist

act --> actor

What does adding -ation or -ment change the root to mean? - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔An action or a process.




Example:

ador(e) --> adoration

develop --> development


What does adding -sim change the root to mean? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Theory

or ideology.




Example:

real --> realism

What does adding -ity, -ness, -ship, or -tude change the root to mean? -

🧠ANSWER ✔✔Condition, quality, or state.

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, Example:

real --> reality

sad --> sadness

relation --> relationship

soli(tary) --> solitude

General rule for plurals, if a word ends in -s, -ss, -z, -zz, -ch, or -sh, add

__________. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-es




Example:

bus --> buses


General rule for plurals, if a word ends in a -y... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Drop the -

y and add -ies.




Example:

pony --> ponies



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