WORD

FORMATION:
NOUNS

 PREFIXES
A prefix is a letter or a group of letters
added at the beginning of a word.
Adding a prefix usually changes the class
of a word.

Examples:
un-
Happy (adj) = unhappy (adj)

 SUFFIX
A suffix is a letter or a group of letters
added at the end of a word.
Adding a suffix usually changes the class
of a word.

Examples:
un-
Entertain (v) = entertainment (noun)

Most suffixes form different types of nouns

as you might seem represented in the
chart below.

 SUFFIXES
DIRECTIONS: Transcript the chart and fill it out
with 2 more examples.

SUFFIXES
FORMING Types of nouns  EXAMPLES
NOUNS

-This suffix forms nouns

-dom denoting a state or Boredom
condition.

-ity - State or Quality nouns. Equality

-Forms abstract nouns

-ment (intangible ideas or Achievement
concepts).

-ness Happiness

-ship Readership
- State or Quality nouns.
-th Youth

-tion Satisfaction