2018-10-22 Pronunciation: suffixes, parts of speech

Greg Malivuk
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suffix = an ending that is added to a word, which often changes the part of speech of the word
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parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjecives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, quantifiers, determiners, interjections
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The most common ending for adverbs is -ly, which is added to the end of an adjective.
(Another fairly common adverb ending is -ward, which can be added to prepositions and directions.)
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Complete the chart of suffixes that change between nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Noun to Noun: -hood, -ship, -dom, -(i)an, -ism, -ist, -ise, -cy, -y
Noun to Verb: [no change], -ize, -ify
Noun to Adjective: -less, -ful, -(i)an, -ese, -ish, -ous, -al, -ic, -y
Verb to Noun: [no change], -er/-or, -ee, -ment, -ent/-ant, -ence/-ance, -ion, -age, -ure, -ing, (-th)
Verb to Verb: (maybe not)
Verb to Adjective: -able/-ible, -ing, -ed (past participle), -(t)ive
Adjective to Noun: -ness, -(i)ty, -dom, -nt -> -nce, -cy, (-th - rare)
Adjective to Verb: -ize, -en
Adjective to Adjective: (maybe not)
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Suffixes sometimes change the pronunciation of the root word.
	able -> ability
	facile -> facility
	personal -> personality
	creative -> creativity, active -> activity, permissive -> permissivity
	human -> humanity
Rule: -ity ending moves the stress to the last syllable before “ity”.