WORD FAMILIES ARE

WORDS THAT LOOK

ALIKE BUT HAVE
DIFFERENT ENDINGS
Root Word : nation
Endings : -al / -ize/ -ly/ -ity
Words : national/ nationalize/ nationally/
nationality
 VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
 act act/actor active actively
 activate activity/action
 ---------- agression aggressive agressively
 agressor
 legislate law legal legally
 legalize legality illegal illegally
 legislator legislative
 legitimacy legitimate
legitimately
 defend (V)/ defense (N)/defensive (Adj)
/defensively (Adv)
 Depend (V)/ dependence/ independence
(N)/ dependent(dependable), independent
(Adj)/ dependently, independently (Adv)
 Equate (V)/ equality /inequality (N)/ equal/
unequal (Adj) / equally, unequally (Adv.)
 Force /enforce (V)/ force/enforcement (N)/
forcible (Adj) / forcibly
STRATEGIES FOR WORD FAMILY
ITEMS
 Ask yourself these questions :
 Do you need a noun? If so, does the ending
make the word a noun?
 Noun endings : -ance,-ancy,-ence,-ation,-
dom,-ment,-ness,-ship, -or,-ion.
 I was sorry to hear about his ill (Incorrect)
 I was sorry to hear about his illness (Correct)
 Do you need an adjective? If so, does the
ending make the word an adjective?
 Ajective endings : -able, -ible, -al, -full, -ish,
-ive
 This is a wonder report! ( Incorrect)
 This is a wonderful report! (Correct)
 Do you need an adverb? If so, does the
ending make the word an adverb?
 Adverb endings : -ly,-ward, -wise
 She entered the data very careful (Incorrect)
 She entered the data very carefully (Correct)
 Do you need a verb? If so, does the ending
make the word a verb?
 Verb endings : -en, -ify,-ize
 We are going to wide the parking lot
(Incorrect)
 We are going to widen the parking lot
(Correct)
 Example :
 Because the equipment is very delicate, it
must be handled with ...... (A) caring (B)
careful (C) care (D) carefully
 1. We need to .....the language in this
report; it is too complex. (A) simplify (B)
simple (C) simply (D) simplistic
 2. In my opinion, her leaving early was a very
...thing to do. (A) children (B) childish (C)
child (D) childishly
 3. We could call the TV stations and ....the
opening of our new store. (A) publicity (B)
public (C) publicize (D) publisher
 4. I like my work because I have the ....to
make ny own decision. (A) freed (B) freely
(C) free (D) freedom
 5. Our company believes it is the best....to
handle the account. (A) organizing (B)
organize
 (C) organization (D) organizational
 6. Most meetings are not as.....as this one
was. (A) interested (B) interestingly (C)
interest
 (D) interesting
 7. A doctor’s .....manner makes patients feel
comfortable. (A) friendship (B) friendly
(C)friend (D) friendliness
 8. It was very ....of the boss to buy us those
nice gifts. (A) thoughtless (B) thoughtful (C)
thought (D) thoughtfully
 9. One of your duties will be some ....typing.
(A) light (B) lightened (C) lightened (D)
lightness
 10. She would like a ....raise, not just a few
dollars. (A) really (B) realist (C) real (D)
reality
YOU ARE TO IDENTIFY THE ONE UNDERLINED
WORD THAT WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE
 1. Buying clothes are often a very time-
consuming because those clothes that a
person likes are rarely the ones that fit him
or her.
 2. Because they had spent too many time
considering the new contract, the students
lost the opportunity to lease the apartment.
 3. These televisions are all too expensive for
we to buy at this time, but perhaps we will
return later.
 4. After she had bought himself a new
automobile, she sold her bicycle.
 5. The next important question we have to
decide is when do we have to submit the
proposal.
 6. George has not completed the assignment
yet, and Maria hasn’t neither.
 7. John decided to buy in the morning a new
car, but in the afternoon he changed his
mind.
 8. Some of the plants in this store require
very little care but this one needs much
more sunlight than the others one.
 9. After George had returned to his house, he
was reading a book.
 10. Many theories on conserving the purity of
water has been proposed, but not one has
been as widely accepted as this one.
 11. The food that Mark is cooking in the
kitchen is smelling delicious.