-lesswithouttopless, fearless -lyadverb endingnicely, quickly -mentaction or processenjoyment, entrenchment -nessstate of, condition ofeagerness, kindness -ous, -eous, -iouspossessing the qualities oferroneous, joyous -s, -espluraltables, foxes ...
Several suffixes have two listings because they have more than one use, and some of the listings actually cover two related uses. For example, -en is an irregular past participle ending for verbs like to eat and to write. Those ...
Suffixes Try to think of words ending in ship, as friendship; in ling, as duckling; ful, as beautiful; less, as fearless; ly, as manly; in some, as gladsome; in ish, as boyish; in er or or, as flier, actor; and in ent or ant, as student, assistant. When you have thought o...
Learn all about the most common adverb suffixes in English in this free advanced grammar lesson. Youll learn about -ly, -wards, and -wise. I teach what the meaning of each of these endings for words is, and how to use the suffixes properly.
(For these spelling conventions, we’ll only be looking at existing base words that become or are associated with adjectives ending in “-ic”; things become much less predictable when the suffixes attach to incomplete Greek or Latin roots.) ...
In these examples, the adverb ending in -wise modifies the idea of the clause, and it limits the viewpoint of the speaker to a specific viewpoint, area or domain. See Adv for Opinion. Weather-wise, it will be a great day for a tennis match. "In view of the weather…" It can't...
-ic also productive with nouns ending in –ist e.g. pessimistic, traditionalistic… 11) -ous, -eous, -ious, -uous meaning ‘having a particular quality’ e.g. sensuous (感觉上的, 给人美感的), courageous, marvelous, anxious… (2) Deverbal Suffixes 附加于动词的后缀 1) -able, ible ...
-ing: imperative ending of regular verbs -ing: something made of such material; activity, process; noun referring to verb -ior: more -ique: belonging to -ish: person of, language of -ish, -like, -ly: (form adjs) somewhat like, becoming; relating to -isk: little -ism: practice of;...
The suffix “-ous” creates a few exceptions to the silentErule, though theseonlyoccur in words in which silentEfollows the consonantG. For example: advantage→advantageous courage→courageous outrage→outrageous (There are other words ending in “-eous,” such ascourteous,gorgeous, orrighteous. ...