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Noun Suffixes  -tion (action) Demonstration

 -ity (state or condition) Activity

 -er (someone or something participating in an action) Protester

 -ness (state or condition) Gentleness

 -ism (practice or state) Multiculturalism

 -ment (action or instance) Employment

 -ship (state of being) Friendship

 -age (action/ instance result of a verb) Damage

 -ery (behavioral condition or location) Gallery

 -th (a state or quality) Strength

Adjetive sufixes  -able or -ible suffix


Meaning: capable of being, capable or worthy of, tending to)
Examples: acceptable, edible

 -al suffix (-al, -ial, -ical) suffix


Meaning: pertaining to something, relating to, having the quality of)
Examples: accidental, educational, historical

 -ant or -ent suffix


Meaning: performing or being, inclined towards something/ someone)
Examples: independent, important

 -ary suffix
Meaning: relates to something, relating to quality or place)
Examples: dietary, veterinary, planetary

 -ful (-full) suffix


Meaning: full of, tending, or liable to)
Examples: awful, wonderful, careful

 -ic suffix
Meaning: pertaining or relating to)
Examples: fantastic, organic, scenic

 -ive suffix
Meaning: performing or tending toward, nature of
Examples: cooperative, sensitive, supportive

 -ious or -ous suffix


Meaning: full of, relating to, qualities of
Examples: dangerous, nervous, gracious

 -less suffix
Meaning: without, lacking, unable to act
Examples: powerless, friendless, useless

 -y suffix
Meaning: characterized by, tending to
Examples: rainy, funny, dirty

 -like suffix
Meaning: like
Examples: lifelike, warlike, childlike

 -ish suffix
Meaning: origin, nature
Examples: selfish, sheepish, bookish

 -ile suffix
Meaning: tending to, capable of
Examples: gentile, senile, fragile

 -an, -ian suffix


Meaning: one who is or does, related to
Examples: agrarian, simian
Verb sufixes  -ate
Mening: To bring about a state
Examples: Demonstrate, generate, communicate

 -en
Meaning: To become
Examples: Shorten, thicken, widen

 -ify
Meaning: To make something, to become
Examples: Clarify, identify, modify, simplify

 -ise
Meaning: To do something, to become
Examples: Criticise, realise, modernise, optimise

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