After completing Chapter 1, you should be able to do the following:

1. identify common suffixes;
2. categorize common suffixes as noun spellings, verbs, and adjectives;
3. recognize plural forms of terms;
4. understand that suffixes can denote a process: an incision, a visual examination, a surgery, an excision, the process of recording, a surgical reattachment, and a surgical puncture;
5. understand that suffixes can denote pain, excessive bleeding, a disease, a prolapse, an inflammation, an abnormal condition, a fungal condition, a tumor, an enlargement, and an abnormal softening;
6. recognize that suffixes can denote narrowing, expansion, and deficiency; identify suffixes that denote paralysis, dissolution, a flow, a formation, a fracture, and the study of an area.