Vocabulary Building

Suffixes -ence/-ance

Suffixes can change the way a word acts. In this unit, you learned the words “intelligence” and “independence.” They are both nouns that talk about a “state of being …” – intelligence is the state of being smart, and independence is the state of being free. These words can be made into adjectives by changing the suffixes ence/ance to ent/ant. Fill in the chart below with the correct adjectives.

1. Susan has high intelligence. She is very __________.
2. Jim and Jack are different. What is the __________?
3. Why were you __________ from class? Your __________ is hurting
   your grades.
4. I asked my teacher what the __________ of this test was, and she said it was __________ because it counted for half my grade.

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