English · Feelings and Emotions

Word formation — suffixes -ness/-ful/-ous/-ic

Turn a quality into a name, and a name into a description.

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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

  1. 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)

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