Multiple choice

Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.

While a prefix is a meaningful element attached to the beginning of a word to change its meaning, like “ante” meaning “______”, as in “ante-bellum”, a suffix is an element added to the end of a word to change its meaning or ______ as “able” in “countable”.

  1. against, form

  2. before, shape

  3. before, function

  4. against, function

  5. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

‘Ante’ means before. Against is ‘anti’. Suffixes change form or structure of words (nouns, adjectives etc.)

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