The key answer of exercise 7
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Reading for the textbook Performer B2 - Student's Book with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton from Zanichelli
Question
Find the nouns in the text that are formed with the suffixes above and say which words they derive from.
Answer
-ness
- personality → personal
- open-mindedness → open-minded
- emotional instability → emotional stable
- future orientation → future-oriented
-ance / -ence
- reservance → reserve
- self-assertiveness → self-assertive
- hard-workingness → hard-working
- fun-lovingness → fun-loving
- conscientiousness → conscientious
-sion / -tion
- migration → migrate
- exploration → explore
- ill health → ill
- corruption → corrupt
- innovation → innovate
-ism
- adventurism → adventurous
- open-mindedness → open-minded
- emotional stability → emotional stable
- future orientation → future-oriented
- environmentalism → environmental
-er / -or
- researcher → research
- explorer → explore
- expert → expert