Prefixes/Suffixes

Question 1

able-ible

Answer 1

able to do

Question 2

er/or

Answer 2

a person who

Question 3

ion/tion/ation/ition

Answer 3

state or quality

Question 4

ous/ious/eous

Answer 4

full of

Question 5

ment

Answer 5

forming nouns expressing the means or result of an action.

Question 6

ive

Answer 6

expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: active; corrective; destructive; detective; passive; sportive. Compare -ative, -itive. Origin of -ive.

Question 7

itive

Answer 7

(forming nouns of adjectival origin): detective, expletive. Word Origin. from Latin -īvus. Word Origin and History for -ive. sufix forming adjectives from verbs, meaning “pertaining to, tending to,” in some cases from Old French -if, but usually directly from Latin -ivus.

Question 8

ative

Answer 8

relating to or serving to

Question 9

ness

Answer 9

There are lots of adjectives in English that we can convert into nouns by using ‘ness’. A noun ending in ‘ness’ literally means the state of the original adjective. For example, hungriness means ‘the state of being hungry. Below are ten sentences which require a noun ending in ‘ness’.Nov 28, 2011

Question 10

ity

Answer 10

-ity. suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives, meaning “condition or quality of being ______,” from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ité and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of connective -i- + -tas (see -ty (2)).

Question 11

ence

Answer 11

-ence. suffix. indicating an action, state, condition, or quality: benevolence, residence, patience. Word Origin. via Old French from Latin -entia, from -ēns, present participial ending.