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Parts of Speech

The following suffixes usually


indicate NOUN
The following suffixes usually
indicate ADJECTIVE
The following suffixes
usually indicate ADVERB
-ion onion, television,
-sion, -tion
(coorporation,
condition, activation,
notification)
-acy ( accuracy,
frequency)
-age (average,
storage)
-ance (importance), -
ence ( patience)
-hood (brotherhood,
neighborhood)
- ship (relationship,
scholarship,
friendship)
-ar ( spectacular,
familiar,popular)
- th ( the forth, length,
strength, depth)
-ism (socialism,
particularism,
idealism, capitalism)
-ist, -or/er, -ant, -ian
(person)
Idealist, capitalist,
socialist, journalist,
specialist)
- ment (management,
government,
instrument,argument)
-y ( safety,
easiness
- ness (easiness
) bussiness -
ity
- ure (nature, failure,
exposure,pressure
-ing (playing, running)
-al (technical,
survival, classical) ( ,
-ic (specific, electric,
fantastic, energetic)
(identical, (al)
-ful, (careless
beautiful, colorful)
less (
speechless,careless,
hopeless)
-ly ( lonely)
-ant (important), -ent
(frequent), patient
-ish ( yellowish,
boyish, stylish)
-like (girl-like, animal
like)
-ous (famous,
nervous, gorgeous,
fabulous,
-y (happy, funny)
-able (fashionable,
flexible, affordable,-
ible (incredible)
-some (awesome,
handsome,
bothersome, etc.
Long, easy
-ly (happily,
readily,beutifully)



Practice

1. Choose the correct answers!

1. (maturity,mature,maturely) person has the 2. (ability,able,disable) to control
himself and not react 3. (violence, violent,violently). He can (settle,settling,settled)
points of 5. (differences, differents,differently) without getting 6. (anger, angry,angrily)
or 7. (violence,violent,violently). The 8. ( maturity, mature,maturely) individual is
usually 9. (patience, patient,patiently) and 10. (will, willing, willingly) to pass up 11.
(immediacy, immediate, immediately) 12. (pleased,pleasant,pleasure) for long term
13. (gain, gainful, gainfully).



2. Label the following words depending of the parts of speech!
1. patient = 16. slowly =
2. patience = 17. patiently =
3. mature = 18. important =
4.importance = 19. pleasant =
5. precious = 20. careful =
6. humorous = 21. care =
7. luxurious = 22. reliable
8. carefully = 23. activity =
9. incredible = 24. communication =
10. brotherhood = 25. electrician =
11. absolutely = 26. friendship =
12. handsome = 27. strength =
13. bothersome = 28. failure =
14. musician = 29. accuracy =
15. boyish = 30. permanent =

3. Match the adjectives with the nouns
1. patient A. contract
2. handsome B. moment
3. favorite C. argument
4. permanent D. person
5. strong F. picture
6. humorous G. man
7. precious H. consideration
8. important I. woman
9. careful J. musician
10. beautiful K. Comedian

Practice 4. Write as many adjectives to modify a noun.
Example: A beautiful humorous strong comedian.
A strong permanent contract.

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