In the previous example, “-tainment” isn’t a suffix, although “-ment” is a suffix having to do with an action or the result of an action. More Grammar Guy: Some volcanic vocalic verbiage ...

Prefixes are a group of letters, words or numbers that precede another. Examples; un-employed, un-acceptable. The prefix is ‘un’, meaning ‘not’.

It depends on whom you ask and where you are. A street's suffix is the part of a street name that denotes its type of roadway — whether you live or work on a street, a road or an avenue.

When is the suffix -ly used? Suffixes can be added to the end of a word to change its meaning. Discover more with this KS1 and KS2 Bitesize English Explainer.