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FALSE FRIENDS AND SUFFIXES
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FALSE FRIENDS False friends are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ in meaning.
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EXAMPLES NOTICE- darse cuenta NOT “noticia”
PAVEMENT- acera NOT “pavimento” SENSITIVE- sensible NOT “sensitivo” MATRON- cuidadora NOT “matrona” CONFIDENT- seguro de sí mismo NOT “confidente”
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SUFFIXES In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes called a postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.
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Suffixes to form names Names formed from verbs -ment: agree agreement
-tion: rotate rotation -er: sing singer -sion: confuse confusion -or: collect collector
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Also some names are formed with the addition of suffixes –ity, -ness, -ence/-ance, -ship to adjectives,verbs and names. -ity: common comunity -ship: relation relationship -ness: mad madness -ence: obedient obedience -ance: appear appearance
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Suffixes to form adjectives I
The suffixes –ed and –ing are added to some verbs to form adjectives. -ed: crash crashed -ing: interest interesting The suffixes –ful and –less are added to some names and help us to know the meaning of the resultant adjectives. -ful: peace peaceful -less: harm harmless
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Suffixes to form adjectives II
Finally also some adjectives are formed adding the suffixes –ous, -al, -able, -ive,-ant/ent some names and verbs. -ous: continue continuous -al: vacation vacational -able: profit profitable -ive: express expressive -ant: resist resistant -ent: obbey obedient
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Exercise false friends
1-Did you know that Chrissie got _______________ (embarrassed/pregnant) on holiday in Ibiza? 2-The ________________ (signature/subject) I hate most is maths. 3-Begoñia is a very ________________ (kind /sympathetic) person. 4-Keep ________________ (removing/stirring) the soup the whole time. 5-I couldn't agree more. That's a very ________________ (sensible/sensitive) idea. pregnant subject kind stirring sensible
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EXERCISE SUFFIXES economical
My car is really very (economic) ____________ There was a (comedy) __________ opera on TV last night. He's a very (ambition) _________ man. The school organises (education) ___________ visits. She cries a lot because she's really very (sense) _________ . They held a long (philosophy) __________ discussion about the subject. The plane was caught in an (electricity) ____________ storm. economical comedian ambitious educational sensitive phylosophical electrical
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WORK REALISED BY: Javier Pérez Rafa Ros David Romero
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