English · Feelings and Emotions
Word formation — suffixes -ness/-ful/-ous/-ic
Turn a quality into a name, and a name into a description.
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Forming adjectives/nouns with suffixes -ness/-ful/-ous/-ic
- Pronunciation of final '-ed' in this unit's vocabulary
The method
- Sort the target word class before choosing among -ness (noun)/-ful/-ous/-ic (adjective)
The common mistakes
- Noun suffix used where the sentence needs an adjective
From the lesson
Read what happens to the adjective kind between these two lines.
The vocabulary
- kindness (لطف)
- famous (مشهور)