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WORD FORMATION

Learn new vocabulary and become familiar with English words and how to modify them by
adding or removing certain affixes (suffixes / prefixes) to form:

 adjectives from nouns


 adverbs from adjectives
 verbs from adverbs
 nouns from verbs
 or vice versa

Although there isn't really a general formation rule that always works, once you have had
enough practice with them, it gets easier to intuitively guess different forms of a given word
even if you don't know the meaning of it.

Complete the table below:

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB

1. analysis analyze analytical analytically

2. identity identify identifiable identifiably

3. editor edit editorial editorially

4. economy economize economical economically

5. tradition ______ traditional traditionallly

6. symbol symbolize symbolic ______

7. removal remove removable ______

8. flexibility flex flexible ______

9. hypotheses hypotize hypothetical ______

10. investigation investigate investigative ______

Taken from https://www.grammarbank.com/word-formation.html with some changes

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