Title: Adjective and Noun Suffixes

Exercise 4

Words often have different forms for different parts of speech. Suffixes, or word endings, provide clues to the part of speech of a word. Use the information in the chart to help you choose the best word for each sentence. ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES -able -ive, -ative -ful -al 1. We appreciate their 2. What you did was 3. If you are looking for creativity) 4. Hes a very thoroughness) 5. I doubt the (useful, usefulness) 6. We are not 7. I would say Im quite 8. They have given so much 9. Your book is a great 10. She has had more than one accomplishment) NOUN SUFFIXES -ation -ity -ness -ment in such a dangerous situation. (courageous, courage) . (admirable, admiration) , she is the person you should hire. (creative, worker. I doubt he would make such a mistake. (thorough, of this software. I think another program would be better. that there is a problem. (aware, awareness) . (imaginative, imagination) to so many. (inspirational, inspiration) . (achieve, achievement) during her time here. (accomplish,

Write a short description of a person you admire. Use at least five of the adjectives or nouns from this exercise.

Source: H. Douglas Brown, New Vistas 4 Workbook

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