11th form professional (and regular)

Please, study the following issues:

A-   Word Formation  (SUFFIXES)

1. Building adjectives with suffixes:  -less, -ful, –able/–ible, –y

Meaning (significado dos sufixos): –less (sem, menos); –ful (com, dotado de, cheio de); –able/-ible (dotado de, merecedor de, capaz); –y (qualidade, com, dotado de). Examples: careless (care=cuidado)+ less (sem) = sem cuidado= descuidado; careful (ful = com) = com cuidado = cuidadoso;  reasonable (reason = razão) + able (dotado de) = com razão, razoável; comfortable (comfort =conforto + able = dotado de) dotado de conforto = confortável; responsible (response – rsponder + ible=capaz = que pode responder por = respnsável).

Examples of some adjectives using given suffixes: useful (útil); useless (inútil); sunny (ensolarado, solarengo); harmful (nocivo); harmless (inofensivo); lucky (com sorte, sortudo); valuable (valioso, valoroso); accessible (acessível).

2. Suffix –ish  (Este sufixo significa qualidade ou defeito, característica, semelhança). Examples: Spanish (from Spain); reddish (avermelhado); yelowish (amarelado); greenish (esverdeado); bluish (azulado); selfish (egoísta)

EXERCISES

 

1. BUILD ADJECTIVES,  by adding suitable suffixes to the given nouns:

NOME	ADJECTIVO	NOME	ADJECTIVO
care		horror
value		care (no)
yellow		access
dust		sleep
sense (no)		anger
end (no)		wash

2. NOW COMPLETE FOLOWING SENTENCES WITH ADJECTIVES FROM THE GRID ABOVE:

1. “She’ll spend hours at the supermarket! She has an ________________________ list of things to buy there!”

2. “One of these days I’m going to get really _________________________ at George. He’s always hiding my schoolbag.”

3. “Please, be _________________________with my glasses. If you break them, I won’t be able to correct the tests tonight!”

4. “I only buy clothes for my children that are machine _________________________.”

5. “I have a ________________________ feeling that he lied to me. But I’ll soon find out!”

7. “The curtains are so old. I hate that ____________________ tinge.”

8. “Jesus, Diana, you’re such a _______________________ driver! You almost killed that woman!”

9. “He made a _______________________ contribution! Without his help, we wouldn’t have made it.

 

B-   Word Formation  (PREFIXES)

Notice:  The following prefixes mean oppositition, negation:

im- (antes de palavras começadoas por M)      in-        il-  (antes de palavras começadas por L )       ir-  (antes de palavras começadas por R)        un-         dis-

EXERCISES

 

1.  Add suitable prefixes (from the above box) to the following adjectives in order to produce their opponents.

1. ___legal	11. ___countable
2. ___pleased	12. ___responsible
3. ___moral	13. ___graced
4. ___jointed	14. ___fair
5. ___correct	15. ___polite
6. ___happy	16. ___logical
7. ___legible	17. ___mature
8. ___regular	18. ___continued
9. ___connected	19. ___tolerant
10. ___literate	20. ___proper

 

2.  Notice the following adjectives: PRACTICAL    PRECISE    LOGICAL    OFFENSIVE    REVERSIBLE    STABLE    LEGITIMATE    RELEVANT. Then, add these adjectives a suitable prefix in order to complete the following sentences:

1. I don’t believe you! She’s such a shy, __________________ woman. She couldn’t possibly have done it!

2. It would be _______________to call her every time the baby doesn’t want to eat.

3. Her arguments don’t make sense. They’re completely _______________.

4. John spent the whole class making _____________________ remarks. I wish the teacher would have shut him up.

5. He was very ______________. He could have had a better grade if he had been more accurate.

6. They are always calling him names. They say he’s an ______________ son. His parents are married to someone else.

7. The accident caused him ____________

brain damage, I’m afraid.

8. I’m sorry. His medical condition is highly _________________.

C-   Word Formation – Building NOUNS

3.  Build NOUNS, by adding suitable suffices to the following words: (some of them may suffer some kind of transformation)

 

1. elegant	2. discuss	3. important
4. develop	5. excite	6. obedient
7. happy	8. sad	9. arrange
10. live	11. intelligent	12. organise
13. sign	14. weak	15. true
16. educate	17. dead	18. adolescent

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