28 Oct 2020

SUFFIXES (WORD BUILDING)

A/ VERB + -ment = NOUN


Advertise – advertisement
Announce –
Arrange
Develop
Employ
Measure
Process
Replace
Retire
Improve
Agree
Argue
Amuse
Entertain
Move
Prove


B/ VERB + -ance/-ence = NOUN


Assist – assistance
Maintain
Perform
Prefer
Resist
Appear
Interfere
Refer

C/ ADJECTIVE + -ce/-cy = NOUN


Accurate- accuracy
Confident
Different
Efficient
Patient
Frequent
Important
Intelligent

D/ ADJECTIVE + -ity/-ty/-ness=NOUN


Loyal- loyalty
Popular
Secure
Sick
Weak
Responsible
Able
Possible
Gentle
Easy


E/ NOUN+ -al= ADJ.

Accident- accidental
Environment
Nation
Profession
Tradition

F/ NOUN +-ful +-ly


Help-helpful-helpfully
Power
Respect
Success
Thank
Thought
Use
Hope
Care


 G/ NOUN + -ous

Ambition- ambitious
Danger
Religion
Curiosity


 H/ Verb+ -ive =adj. / + -ion =noun


Attract – attractive – attraction
Create
Predict
Produce
Progress
Protect
Imagine
Describe
Destroy
Explode
Compete
Construct
Depress
Invent
Reflect

I/ VERB+ -able

Advice
Accept

Depend

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14 Feb 2020

Prefixes



PREFIXES 
1- ANTI- (against). ...nuclear, ...theft, ...european, ...war, ...learning, ...racist
2- BI- (Two, twice). ...weekly
3- EX- (Outside or previous) ...girlfriend, ...boyfriend
4- MIS- (Wrongly) ...behave, ...took, ...misunderstood, ...read, ...print
5- MULTI- (many) ....coloured
6- OVER- (too MUCH) ...work, ...confident, ...qualified, ...paid, ...priced, ...react 7- POST- (after) ...graduate
8- PRE- (before) ...arrangement, ...game
9- RE- (again) ...do,... usable, ...start, ...fill, ...read, ...write, ...take, ...arrange,
10-INTER ( between) ...continental, ...national
11-CO ( together) ...operation, ....educational, ....worker, ...owner, ...leader
12-OUT (better than ) ....play, ....perform
13- UNDER (Not enough) ...estimate,.... achieve, ...value, ...pay
14-TELE (distant) ...graph, ...vision

EXERCISE:
Complete the sentences with the correct prefixes:
1- There was an .............war demonstration
2- There should be more ..................operation between girls and boys
3- They ..................printed the instructions
4- Barça .............played Milan yesterday
5- He has been ..................working recently
6- She has to .........take her exams
7- The teacher ..................estimated his ability
8- She ran as fast as she could, but James ..............ran her
9- Your homework is terrible! You'll Have to ............do it
10-We must learn to ...........exist with people from other cultures
11- She ..............understood the instructions and write the wrong essay
12-The fish is .............cooked. It isn't even warm
13-They're always criticizing the USA. They 're ................American
14- This bill is really expensive. I think they must have ..................charged me


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