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Word Formation

This document provides information on word formation in English, including the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and opposites. It discusses common suffixes used to form nouns (-ion, -ity, -ness, -ation, -ment, -ence, -ance) and adjectives (-ous, -ful, -y, -al, -ent, -ant, -ive). It also lists suffixes used to form adverbs from adjectives, exceptions to adverb formation rules, and suffixes used to form nouns from other parts of speech like verbs and adjectives (-al, -ight, -ing, -ship, -th, -ure, -y). Finally, it

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Word Formation

This document provides information on word formation in English, including the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and opposites. It discusses common suffixes used to form nouns (-ion, -ity, -ness, -ation, -ment, -ence, -ance) and adjectives (-ous, -ful, -y, -al, -ent, -ant, -ive). It also lists suffixes used to form adverbs from adjectives, exceptions to adverb formation rules, and suffixes used to form nouns from other parts of speech like verbs and adjectives (-al, -ight, -ing, -ship, -th, -ure, -y). Finally, it

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WORD FORMATION

NOUN
Advice
Assistant
Belief
Choice
Collection/collector
Competitor
Complaint
contestant
conversation
Courage
Depth
Development
disappointment
Energy
Equipment
Evidence
Founder
Height
Illness
Invention/inventor
Knowledge
length
Limit
Listener
Loss
organizer
Participant
Performer/performance
Permisssion
Poverty
Proof

ADJECTIVE
advisable

Deep
energetic

Equip
Evident
High
ill
Impressive
Known/unknown
long
Unlimited/limitless
lost

Found
Highten
impress
Invent
Know
lengthen
Listen
Lose
Organize
Paticipate
Perform
Permit

poor
Remarkable
Reliable/unrealiable

Researcher
Responsability
Rider
Runner
Shortage
Spectator
strength
suspicion
Truth
Width
Winner

VERB
Advise
Assist
Believe
Choose
Collect
compete
Complain
Contest
Converse
Encourage/discourage
Deepen
develop
Disappoint

Prove
Remark
rely
Research

responsible
Short
strong
suspicious
True (adv- truly)
wide
worse

ADJECTIVES FORMATION: OPPOSITES

Ride
Run
Shorten
Spectate
strenghten
widen
Win
worsen

UN: lucky/concerned/reliable/sociable/adventurous/selfish
IN: experienced/competent/tolerant/sincere/decisive/sensitive
IL: legal/logical/legible
IM: practical/patient/perfect/polite/mature/modest/moral
IR: regular/responsible/relevant
DIS: honest/obedient/satisfied

NOUN FORMATION
-ION: object, react, predict, convert, decide (decision)
-ITY: original, popular, major, able (ability), curious, vary(variety),
creative(creativity), similar(similarity), generous
-NESS: sad, weak, careless, lonely, conscious
-ATION: inform, resign, present, explain, converse (conversation), combine
(combination)
-MENT: enjoy, treat, govern, argue, entertain, amuse, pay
-ENCE: differ, exist, depend, obey, confide
-ANCE; appear, perform, annoy, tolerate, occur

WORD FORMATION: ADJETIVES


-OUS
Dangero
us
Poisonou
s
Mysterio
us
(mistery
)
Humoro
us
(humour
)
Numero
us
(number
)

-FUL
Careful

-Y
Healthy

-AL
Additional

Peaceful

Cloudy

Industrial

Beautifu
l

Hungry
(hunger
)

Original

successf
ul

Foggy
(fog)

Financial

Beneficial
(benefit)

-ENT
Impatie
nt
Differen
t
Apparen
t

-ANT
Unpleas
ant
Ignorant

obedien
t

hesitant

Tolerant

-IVE
Attractiv
e
Protectiv
e
Decisive

descripti
ve

inexpens
ive

Environme
ntal

WORD FORMATION: ADVERBS


Slow.slowly
Happyhappily
Adjective
Complete/sole
Simple/gentle
Lucky/extraordi
nary
Dramatic/scient
ific

Adjective
Whole
Shy
Full
Public
True

Confortable.............confortably

adverb
Completely/solely
Simply/gently
Luckily/extraordina
rily
Dramatically/scien
tifically

adverb
Wholly
Shyly
Fully
Publicly
truly

Exceptions to the rule


WORD FORMATION NOUNS
-AL: arrive-arrival, refuse-refusal,
survive-survival, approve-approval

-IGHT: fly-flight, see-sight, weigh-weight, high-height


-ING: say, build, meet, adevertise (advertising)
-SHIP: friend, member, champion ,partner---------friendship, membership
-TH: warm-warmth. Deep- depth, true-truth, grow-growth
-URE: press-pressure, depart-departure, please-pleasure, sign-signature
-Y: honest-honesty, difficult- difficulty, safe-safety, poor-poverty
NOUN
Home
Power
Skill
Care
Point
Delight
End
Harm
Peace
Stress
Thought

ADJ.POSITIVE
Powerful
Skillful
Careful
Delightful
Harmful
Peaceful
Stressful
Thoughtful

ADJ. NEGATIVE
homeless
Powerless
Unskilled
careless
Pointless
Endless
Harmless
Unstressful
Thoughtless

Sleep
Effort
Pain

Painful

Sleepless
Effortless
painless

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