Chapter 3

Question 1

What do suffixes do?

Answer 1

Make a word a noun or an adjective

Question 2

When does a suffix need a combing vowel?

Answer 2

when the suffix starts with a consonant

Question 3

What different things do suffixes indicate?

Answer 3

specialties (fields of study), specialists (those who study the field), instruments (used to view or measure), surgical and diagnostic procedures (surgical puncture, process of recording, process of viewing with a scope, or be incision to)

Question 4

The root “gastr” means stomach, and suffix “-plasty” means surgical repair. How would you define the term “gastroplasty”?

a. Stomach repair during surgery.
b. Surgical repair of the stomach.
c. Surgical stomach repair.
d. Repair surgically of the stomach.

Answer 4

b. Suffix first then the wood root

Question 5

Plural from ‘a’ to…

Answer 5

ae

Question 6

Plural from ‘ax’ to…

Answer 6

aces

Question 7

Plural from ‘is’ to…

Answer 7

es

Question 8

Plural from ‘ix, ex, yx’ to…

Answer 8

ices

Question 9

Plural from ‘on’ to…

Answer 9

a

Question 10

Plural from ‘um’ to..

Answer 10

a

Question 11

Plural from ‘us’ to…

Answer 11

i

Question 12

Plural from ‘ma’ to…

Answer 12

mata

Question 13

True or False: Plural suffixes don’t always follow a logical pattern, so it is important to study them.

Answer 13

True. Absolutely true. For instance, instead of just adding an ‘s’ to the end to make things plural, there are odd ones like –ix, -ex, or –yx changing to –ices.