ATI TEAS 7 FULL STUDY GUIDE (SMART
EDITION): ENGLISH - CONVENTIONS OF
STANDARD ENGLISH EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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.
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.
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
General rule for plurals, if a word ends in an -f.... - Answer-Change the f to a v and add -
es.
Example:
knife --> knives
General rule for plurals, for all other endings outside of the previous rules add a(n)
______. - Answer--s.
Example:
dog --> dogs
What is a homophone? - Answer-A word that has the same sound as another word, but
does not have the same meaning or spelling.
Example:
to, too, and too.
there, their, and they're.
see and sea.
What is a homograph? - Answer-A word that has the same spelling as another word,
but does not have the same sound or meaning.
Example:
lead (to go in front of) and lead (a metal)
bass (deep sound) and bass (a fish)
Describe vowels. - Answer-AEIOU and sometimes Y.
Vowels have both short and long sounds.
Describe consonants. - Answer-The other 21 letters.
Have weak sounds.
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