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The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3 - Full house for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

In groups, think of words ending with these suffixes and then answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. The suffixes -ion, -ness, -ity, -ism and -ment usually form nouns.
  2. The suffix -ise often forms verbs and the others (-al, -less, -y and -ious) often form adjectives.