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Let’s see some adjectives that are based on already existing nouns or
verbs:
We can also add a suffix to a verb. Two common examples of suffixes are “-
able” or “-ive”. Sometimes we have to modify the verb:
One car, two cars, three cars etc. ("Car" is a countable noun)
BUT NOT One traffic, two traffics, three traffics. ("Traffic" is an uncountable
noun)
Learners of English often have problems with nouns; especially when a
countable noun in their native language is uncountable in English, and vice
versa:
Collective nouns
Collective nouns refer to a group of people, animals, etc. They have the
singular form, but are used like plural nouns: