English · Ethics in Business
Word formation — suffixes -y/-ty, opposite-forming prefixes & stress shift
Turning a quality into a noun, and a word into its opposite
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Forming nouns with suffixes -y/-ty
- Forming opposites with prefixes
- Stress shift between the verb, noun and adjective forms of a word family
The method
- Say the word family aloud to feel the stress move (e.g. 'economy → economic')
The common mistakes
- Wrong stress placement when the word class changes
From the lesson
A manager always tells the truth, keeps promises, and never hides the real numbers. Colleagues trust her completely.
The vocabulary
- honesty (نزاهة)
- illegal (غير قانوني)