Language Note 2.1 Suffixes and Prefixes
A) In Language Note 1.9, you learned about these suffixes that we often use for a person’s job: -er writer, manager, designer -or instructor, actor, doctor -ist scientist, artist, chemist -ian historian, librarian, musician
B) Here are more suffixes. These suffixes make a word an adjective: -able -ful (means with a lot of something) -less (means without something)
Adjective believe believable enjoy enjoyable comfort comfortable Look at the examples: -able Adjective believe believable enjoy enjoyable comfort comfortable
Adjective beauty beautiful wonder wonderful hope hopeful care careful
-less Adjective hope hopeless care careless use useless
C) Prefixes come at the beginning of words. Here is one prefix: un- (means not) Adjective Opposite Meaning important unimportant = not important happy unhappy = not happy able unable = not able planned unplanned = not planned believable unbelievable = not believable
Do you understand?