SUFFIXES & PREFIXES

suffixes and prefixes are used to form different parts of speech

illindy Building adjectives from nouns, using these suffixes:

-v -ous
-ed -al
Jy -ic

Painfi Building adjectives frotrr nouns and vcrbs, trsing thesc sufftxes:
-ful -lcss
-ish -ablc
-proof

Unkind Building ncgativc adjcctivcs and vcrbs, using thcse prefixes:

un- dis- Complete the sentences, using a rvord.
in- non- from the box and a prefix.
llll- l't1ts-
.t
il- dc- pack possible aSree tidy fair like
Ir- appear employed legal polite

Irttclliterrcc Building nouns fronr adjcctives, using thesc suflrxcs:

-cncc -ncss
-ity -l11Cnt
-ion (and sonrc iurportant exccPtions)
-v

Modcfltizc Buikling carrsarivc vcrbs frorn adjcctivcs, using thesc sufiixcs

-lzc
{n
-irv

Ovu-iressed Building words using thesc prefixes:

ovcr- rc-
anti- fellow-
Pro- co-
cx-

Exploratiort Building nouns frotn verbs to describe actions, using these suffixes:

-!on -ment
-al -ance

Complete the chart below and mark the stress. The stress often changes in such word families

Noun Adjective Person Verb

photograph photo'graphic pho'tographer to'photograph

'industry
to in'vent.

compe'tition

'criticism
me'chanic

special

'politics

'nation
to 'analyse