viernes, 15 de febrero de 2019

WORD FORMATION Tips - How can I create nouns?


 Let's have a break here. The next part of the FCE exam is about WORD FORMATION. 
Here you have a list of suffixes you will need in order to build NOUNS.





SUFFIX
MEANING
EXAMPLE
NOUN SUFFIXES


-acy
state or quality
democracy, accuracy, lunacy
-al
the action or process of
remedial, denial, trial, criminal
-ance, -ence
state or quality of
nuisance, ambience, tolerance
-dom
place or state of being
freedom, stardom, boredom
-er, -or
person or object that does a specified action
reader, creator, interpreter, inventor, collaborator, teacher
-ism
doctrine, belief
Judaism, scepticism, escapism
-ist
person or object that does a specified action
Geologist, protagonist, sexist, scientist, theorist, communist
-ity, -ty
quality of
extremity, validity, enormity
-ment
condition
enchantment, argument
-ness
state of being
heaviness, highness, sickness
-ship
position held
friendship, hardship, internship
-sion, -tion
state of being
position, promotion, cohesion

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