1. Language Note 2.1
Suffixes and Prefixes

2. 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

3. B) Here are more suffixes. These suffixes make a word an adjective:
-able
-ful (means with a lot of something)
-less (means without something)

4. Adjective believe believable enjoy enjoyable comfort comfortable
Look at the examples:
-able
Adjective
believe
believable
enjoy
enjoyable
comfort
comfortable

5. Adjective beauty beautiful wonder wonderful hope hopeful care careful

6. -less
Adjective
hope
hopeless
care
careless
use
useless

7. 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

8. Do you understand?