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

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important
  • Experimental sciences important
  • Mathematics important
  • Engineering important
  • Management and economics important

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

  1. 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)

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