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    The document discusses common patterns for forming nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from other parts of speech in English. It notes that nouns often take the suffixes -ment, -ity, and -ness and that nouns for people typically end in -er, -or, or -ist. Adjectives commonly end in -ous, -able/-ible, -al, -ed/-ing, -ful/-less, -ic, or -ive, while adverbs form by adding -ly to the related adjective. To form the adverb, the suffix is added to the adjective rather than the noun or verb form.

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    adjetives ending in able. Grammar.

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    The document discusses common patterns for forming nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from other parts of speech in English. It notes that nouns often take the suffixes -ment, -ity, and -ness and that nouns for people typically end in -er, -or, or -ist. Adjectives commonly end in -ous, -able/-ible, -al, -ed/-ing, -ful/-less, -ic, or -ive, while adverbs form by adding -ly to the related adjective. To form the adverb, the suffix is added to the adjective rather than the noun or verb form.

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    Adjectives Ending in - Able

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    The document discusses common patterns for forming nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from other parts of speech in English. It notes that nouns often take the suffixes -ment, -ity, and -ness and that nouns for people typically end in -er, -or, or -ist. Adjectives commonly end in -ous, -able/-ible, -al, -ed/-ing, -ful/-less, -ic, or -ive, while adverbs form by adding -ly to the related adjective. To form the adverb, the suffix is added to the adjective rather than the noun or verb form.

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    Adjectives ending in able/-ible often take the noun ending ity. (e.g.

    responsible- responsibility; possible-possibility; capable- capability) Here are some other patterns to help your students discover within the chart:
    Common endings Nouns for things = ment; -ity; -ness; -tion Nouns for people = -er; -or; -ist Verbs = rarely have special endings because they get manipulated for tense; usually the shortest word form Adjectives = -ous; -able/-ible; -al; -ed/-ing; -ful/-less; -ic; -ive Adverbs = -ly

    To form an adverb, add ly to the adjective form (not the noun/verb form) If two word forms are the same, it will usually be the noun and verb (e.g.: parent, answer, guess). Nouns ending in tion will usually take the al suffix for adjectives.

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