Pat the Cat (Suffix)
Practice Words
Two-syllable words with common suffixes such as -ness, -ment, -er, -ful, -less, and -ly.
Pat the cat does not have a home. Most of the time he does not mind. He naps in a tree that he likes and gets food from the Jones family.
What is this? The Jones family are going on a trip? Pat will not have any food put out for him. The reality hits him.
Pat knows that there is a lot of food in the Jones house. He get in through a window to see what he can find. Lucky the Jones family do not have a security alarm.
There is a string of bags. What is inside? Pat scratches and bites at the bags to open them. And then…
Bang! The chips burst out. He thinks that they are good quality. They taste great! Pat eats all of them.
Pat goes on desks and in bins. He finds treats here and there. He eats bread, meat and spreads.
One day, Pat finds that he can open the fridge. That is the best day. There is cheese, milk and cold cuts.
Pat ate it all. He did not know the last time that he could have as much food as he liked. He had been on the street a long time.
Pat got fat. He started to feel a bit sick. Even so, he still wanted to find more food to eat. He could not stop.
Pat had no vanity about the way that he looked. He did not mind being a fat cat if he felt full. He cleared out the fridge.
But when the Jones family came back, Pat found that he could not get out of the window. He wanted to get up into his tree, but he was too fat.
When the Jones family got inside, they thought that there might have been a thief! There was such a mess all over the house. But then
they saw Pat. They felt for him. They did not know that he had no home. They just thought that he liked it in his tree.
The Jones family took Pat in. They looked after him. They washed him and brushed him They gave him the right amount of food. Pat loves being in the Jones family. And he still has his tree.