Word Formations: Presents By: Ms. T.P.G.Thaanuja Krishani Pieris
Word Formations: Presents By: Ms. T.P.G.Thaanuja Krishani Pieris
Word Formations: Presents By: Ms. T.P.G.Thaanuja Krishani Pieris
FORMATIONS
PRESENTS BY :KRISHANI
PRESENTS BY : T.P.G.THAANUJA Ms. T.P.G.THAANUJA
PIERIS KRISHANI PIERIS 1
4.7 USES NOUNS,VERBS,
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
APPROPRIATELY
Sentence Examples:
The dog barks.
The flower is beautiful.
The girl wears a school uniform.
VERBS
Sentence Examples:
Tharuka will pass the exam.
Children jump high.
We will think about it.
ADJECTIVES
Sentence Examples:
The bag is small.
Can you lift the heavy luggage?
Roses are red.
ADVERBS
Sentence Examples:
She ran away quickly.
The door was opened forcefully.
We often drink soda.
Noun Suffixes
quality Security
quantity Authority
popularity Sensitivity
creativity Opportunity
identity Unity
ability Reality
infinity Responsibility
validity Curiosity
facility Activity
gravity stupidity
(someone or something
-er participating in an
action)
Baker Painter
Teacher Killer
Worker Leader
Dancer Manager
Driver Member
Farmer Teller
Cleaner Tusker
Driver Writer
Helper reader
hunter listner
-ness (state or condition)
kindness
gentleness
softness
sickness
cleanliness
-ism (practice or state)
multiculturalism
Racism
critisism
idealism
tourism
-ment (action or instance)
punishment
employment
wonderment
Development
movement
-ship (state of being)
friendship
kinship
citizenship
Internship
membership
-age (action/ instance result
of a verb)
damage
breakage
wastage
Message
leakage
-ery (behavioral condition or
location)
bravery
scenery
gallery
Nursery
category
-th (a state or quality)
depth
warmth
strength
Overgrowth
width
Verb Suffixes
-ed past-tense version of a
verb
Laughed
Climbed
Called
Missed
played
-en become
Soften
Fasten
Lengthen
strengthen
action or process,
-er making an adjective
comparative
Faster
Bigger
fuller
Longer
taller
verb form/present
-ing participle of an
action
Laughing
Singing
Talking
Sweeping
writing
-ise/-ize to cause or to
become
Memorialize
Authorize
commercialize
advertise
visualize
-ate to become
Activate
collaborate
Create
Meditate
elaborate
Adjective
Suffixes
Adjective meaning examples
suffix
capable of being,
-able/ible capable or worthy of,
tending to
flammable
countable
beatable
acceptable
edible
-al, -ial, -ical pertaining to
something, relating to,
having the quality of
accidental
educational
historical
regional
social
universal
personal
mental
universal
-ant / -ent performing or
being, inclined towards
something/ someone
independent
vacant
important
brilliant
incessant
-ary relates to something,
relating to quality or
place
Machinery
Slippery
History
Satisfactory
imaginary
- ful full of
awful
skillful
successful
beautiful
wonderful
careful
- ic pertaining or relating to
athletic
scenic
fantastic
organic
acidic
historic
- ive Nature of
cooperative
sensitive
supportive
pensive
creative
- ious / ous Nature of
dangerous
nervous
gracious
mysterious
poisonous
victorious
- less without, lacking,
unable to act
powerless
friendless
worthless
useless
homeless
careless
fearless
-y characterized by,
tending to
rainy
funny
dirty
sleepy
beautifully
brainy
fruity
performing or tending toward, nature of
- LIKE like
lifelike
warlike
childlike
lifelike
ladylike
birdlike
- ish origin, nature
selfish
sheepish
pinkish
bookish
childish
boyish
foolish
- ile tending to, capable
of
futile
gentile
senile
fragile
- an / - ian one who is or does,
related to
Asian
Srilankan
Vegetarian
Adverb Suffixes
- ly Related to or quality
Softly
Slowly
Happily
Crazily
madly
- WARD / WARDS direction
Onwards
afterwards
backwards
inward
- wise In relation to
Otherwise,
likewise
clockwise
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REMEMBER…
You have to complete the sentence with the person noun (singer).
You change the verb (sing) into the person noun (singer).
• If you don’t know the new word, guess. You may be right!
The underlined word is wrong in each sentences. write the correct form of the
word in the bracket to make meaningful sentences.
Noun Verb
Treatment Treat
Behaviour
Demand
Interact
Death
Performance
Refer
Elaction
Tolerance
Register
cultural and 5)__________ interest. But for some others Sri Lanka’s (history)
dark, darkened,
darken dark, darkness darkly
darkening
decidedly,
decide decision decided, decisive
decisively
decorate decoration
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