Suffix -IC
Suffix -IC
Around the Fourth of July, many Americans don their patriotic attire.What does the word patriotic mean in the sentence above? One way to figure it out is by breaking the word apart. The word patriotic has two main parts: patriot and ic. In the word patriotic, -ic is the suffix.
A suffix is a group of letters that is added to the end of a word. A suffix changes the meaning of the word.
The suffix -ic means the nature of/like. So the word patriotic means the nature of/like a patriot.
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