Word formation

Word-building
Suffixation: NOUNS
 Nouns formed from nouns
• -ship (friend – friendship)
• - hood (brother – brotherhood)
• - er (advert- advertiser)
• - or (act – actor)
• -ee (trainer – trainee)
• - ness (lion – lioness)
• - age (pack –package)
• - ism (Marx – Marxism)
• -ist /-est (science – scientist/ host – hostess))
 Nouns formed from verbs
• - age (break – breakage)
• -al (propose – proposal)
• -ance (annoy – annoyance)
• -ation (organise – organisation)
• -ence (prefer – preference)
• -ion (confuse –confusion)
• -ment (amuse – amusement)
• -sion (suspend – suspension)
• -sis (analyse –analysis)
• -tion (direct –direction)
• -y (injure –injury)
 Nouns formed from
adjectives
• - ance (tolerant – tolerance)
• -cy (fluent – fluency)
• -ence (obedient – obedience)
• -ion (desperate – despreation)
• -iness (happy –happiness)
• -ity (popular – popularity)
• -ment (content – contentment)
• -ty (royal – royalty)
• -y (honest – honesty)
• - dom (free – freedom)
• The water-fuelled car was his greatest .... . (ACHIEVE)
• The final .......... took 8 hours to reach. (AGREE)
• The .......... on their faces was worthy of a
photograph. (AMAZE)
• The first .......... of problems in the design started in
November of this year. (APPEAR)
• Thanks to mobile phones, the emergency services
come to people's .......... much faster these days.
(ASSIST)
• My first .......... for a holiday would be Okinawa.
(CHOOSE)
• The managing .......... of the pharmaceutical company
was sent to prison for bribing medical staff. (DIRECT)
• ......... is now at more than 20% in Spain, which is
catastrophic. (EMPLOY)
• Helping companies to create jobs is the best way to
stimulate .......... in an economy. (GROW)
• Electric cars have been showing remarkable .......... in
recent years. (IMPROVE
• People need to increase their .......... of nutritiion,
especially about the dangers of sugar, red meat and
refined flour. (KNOW)
• http://www.dijaski.net/gradivo/
ang_ref_word_formation_01__predstavitev?
r=1
• https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/
word_formation/verbs_nouns1/index.php
• http://www.dcielts.com/word-formation-
exercises/
• http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-
english/FCE/word-formation-ment-ness.html