Professional English: General Grammar
Word Formation (noun-verb-adj-adv)
Grammar
There are eight parts of speech. This can be remembered as NAP-VAP-CI viz Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.
CHAPTER - 2
WORD FORMATION
(NOUN-VERB-ADJ-ADV)
CHANGING WORDS INTO DIFFERENT PARTS OF SPEECH
There
are eight parts of speech. This can be remembered as NAP-VAP-CI viz Noun, Adjective,
Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.
Words
can be changed into other parts of speech with the addition of certain letters
either as prefix or as suffix.
NOUNS
Suffixes
like er, ist, or, ant, ator are added for nouns especially personal nouns.
Suffixes
like 'ance, ence, tion, sion, ment, ity, age, ency, ism, ness are added
for functional nouns.
Titbits
Be careful with spelling of maintenance.
main – te - nance
ADJECTIVES
Adjectives
can be framed by using certain suffixes like: ble, ible, able, al, ous, ive,
tive, ical, ing, ed, ory, tic etc.
Titbits
‘uninterested' means not
having interest.
'disinterested' means
not having partiality or discrimination.
Intrest is wrong.
Interest is right.
VERBS
Suffixes
should be removed to get verbs.
Prefixes
like: en, em can be added to make verbs. Suffixes
like:
ize, ise can be added to frame verbs.
Titbits
'Discourage' is not the opposite of 'courage'.
Encourage × discourage
Courage × cowardice.
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