English is in the process of constant changes
Павленко Валентина Александровна
МАОУ «СОШ № 4»,
г. Ялуторовск
Foreign languages in my life
The aim of my work is
to analyze word formation in Modern English
METHODS
- theoretical methods – reading, choosing and analyzing literature.
- practical methods – making a survey of data .
- communicative methods – a) talks with my parents, friends and classmates;
b) sociological surveys of my friends and classmates.
Suffixes
Suffixes usually change
the word class of the base word!
Noun formation
-ment
-ation
-al
- combine - combin ation ;
- accuse - accus ation ;
- image - imagin ation ...
- employ - employ ment ;
- move - move ment ;
- arrange – arrange ment ...
- survive - surviv al ;
- arrive - arriv al ;
- try - tri al ...
-ance/ -ence
-age
-er
- perform - perform ance ;
- insure - insur ance ;
- entry – entr ance ;
- differ – differ ence ;
- prefer - prefer ence ...
- carry - carri age ;
- use - us age ;
- pack - pack age ...
- work - work er ;
- sing - sing er ;
- win - winn er ...
Noun formation
-dom
-hood
-ity
- king - king dom ;
- free - free dom ;
- wise - wis dom ...
- neighbour - neighbour hood ;
- man - man hood ;
- parent - parent hood ...
- national - national ity ;
- feminine - feminin ity ;
- curious - curios ity ...
- ess
-ship
-ness
- actor – actr ess ;
- prince - princ ess ;
- waiter - waitr ess ...
- relation - relation ship ;
- friend - friend ship ;
- champion - champion ship ...
- dark - dark ness ;
- fit - fit ness ;
- weak - weak ness ...
-ist
-th/ -t
-ant/ ent
- novel – novel ist ;
- art - art ist ;
- piano - pian ist ...
- true - tru th ;
- grow- grow th ;
- weigh – weigh t ...
- study - stud ent ;
- serve - serv ant ;
- assist - assist ant ...
Adjective formation
-ful
-y
-ish
- care - care ful ;
- beauty - beauti ful ;
- delight - delight ful ...
- sleep - sleep y ;
- rain - rain y ;
- fun - funn y ...
- tall - tall ish ;
- dark - dark ish ;
- green - green ish ...
-ous
-less
- fame – fam ous ;
- fury - furi ous ;
- poison - poison ous ...
- use - use less ;
- shame - shame less ;
- hair - hair less ...
-able/ ible
- accept - accept able ;
- agree - agree able ;
- access - access ible ...
-al
-ive
- electric – electric al ;
- nation - nation al ;
- emotion - emotion al ...
- create – creat ive ;
- attract - attract ive ;
- act - act ive ...
Verb formation
-en
-ify
- identity - ident ify ;
- solid - solid ify ;
- example - exempl ify ...
- deep - deep en ;
- wide - wid en ;
- short - short en ...
-ise/ -ize
-ate
- apology - apolog ise ;
- tranquil - tranquil ise ;
- sympathy - sympath ise ...
- regular - regul ate ;
- circular - circul ate ;
- domestic - domestic ate ...
