ROOT WORD

Noun (Person)
Suffix example
-er Teacher, baker, farmer, gardener, manager,
programmer, singer, waiter, writer

-or Conductor, professor, doctor, actor

-ist Biologist, chemist, cyclist, dentist, journalist

-ian Beautician, historian, librarian, mathematician,

politician, musician

Noun (thing)
suffix Example
-nce Accidence, adolescence, aberrance, commence,
durance, dance

-ism Critism, journalism, budhism, heroism, pacifism,

optimism

-ness Kindness, happiness, dryness, darkness,

(state of being) awareness, siliness, illness, fitness

-logy Theology, ecology, analogy, psychlogy

(the study of)

-ion Union, situation, section, position, question,

(act or condition) action, decision

-ment Achievement, argument, adjustment,

(condition) amazement, assignment, apartement, judgement

-ty Opportunity, city, security, activity, quality,

(quality of) authority, majority, community
 Adjective
Suffix example
-ful Beautiful, wonderful, awful, skilful, successful
(tending or liable)
-nt Current, apparent, ancient,

-al Accidental, educational, historical

(relating to)
-able Flammable, dissemble
(capable or worthy)
-ous Poisonous, serious, obvious, famous, dangerous
(full of)
-ic Athletic, basic, historic, scientific, photograpic
(having the nature of)

Verbs to noun

Expect – expectation

Sign – signature

Argue - Argument

Cancel – cancellation

Survive – survival

Succeed - success

Qualify - qualification

Announce - announcement

Develop - development

Permit - permission

Die – death

Depart - departure

Discover - discovery

Choose - choice

Lose - loss

Satisfy – satisfaction

Arrive – arrival
Excite - excitement

Organize - organization

Astonish - astonishment

Laugh - laughter

Fail - failure