1. WORDFORMATION

2. Adjective suffixes
The following аsuffixes can be added to nouns and verbs to form adjectives:
-al (nation –national) ly (day –daily)
-ic (artist –artistic) ful (peace-peaceful)
-ous (fame-famous) less (hope-hopeless)
- y (thirst-thirsty) ive (effect-effective)

3. Prefixes which make new words from nouns and adjectives
anti-: against, preventing (antibacterial)
bi-: two (bilingual)
co-: with, together, mutual (co-educational)
inter-: between, among (intercontinental)
mis-: wrongly, badly, not (misinformed)
mono-: one (monolingual)
multi-: many (multicultural)

4. Adjective suffixes from verbs
-ed: interest – interested
-ing: fascinate – fascinating
-able: accept – acceptable
-ible: sense -sensible

5. Verbs formed from adjectives
-en: broad – broaden
-ise: popular – popularise
-ify: false – falsify
en-: rich - enrich

6. Prefixes forming opposites
de-: deactivate, decode (used with verbs)
dis-: disadvantage, disinfect (verbs, nouns,
adjectives)
in-: independent, indecisive (adjectives,
nouns)
il-: (before l) illogical (adjectives, nouns)
im-: (before m and p) impossible
(adjectives, nouns)

7. ir-: (before r ) irresistible (adjectives,
nouns)
non-: non-smoker, non-toxic (adjectives,
un-: unfair, untidy (adjectives, adverbs,

8. Prefixes which form new words from nouns, verbs and adjectives
out- : more, better (outperform)
over-: to a great extent (overreact)
post-: after (postgraduate)
pre-: before (preschool)
re-: again (rewrite)
semi-: half (semidetached)
sub-: under, less
super - :big, more
under - : not enough

9. Suffixes which form nouns referring to people
verb + er / or / ar (teacher, governor, liar)
verb /noun/ adjective + ist (typist,
motorist, specialist)
verb + ant / ent (assistant, correspondent)
noun + an / ian (American, Italian,
historian)
verb + ee (referee, employee)

10. Forming nouns from verbs
- ance: ignore – ignorance
- ence: correspond –correspondence
- ion: collect – collection
- tion: reduce – reduction
- ation: examine - examination