Last week, in English for Lunch, we finished our series of lessons on how suffixes can be used to change a word class. We had seen how to use them to form adjectives, adverbs and nouns, and, finally, this time we checked common suffixes used to form verbs!
Take a look at the sentences below and see how many verb suffixes you can identify.
1. We have to ___________ a Halloween party (organisation).
2. This special moisturiser will __________ your skin (soft).
3. The police have __________ the suspects (identity).
4. She was visibly _____________ after the joke (irritation).
5. Social networks ___________ the sense of underachievement (height).
Have you found the following suffixes? How many other verbs can you form using them?
-ise (-ize)
-en
-fy/-ify
-ate
Let us know and join us next Thursday at 12.30pm!
See you then!
Answers: 1. organise 2. soften 3. identified 4. irritated 5. heighten.
Take a look at the sentences below and see how many verb suffixes you can identify.
1. We have to ___________ a Halloween party (organisation).
2. This special moisturiser will __________ your skin (soft).
3. The police have __________ the suspects (identity).
4. She was visibly _____________ after the joke (irritation).
5. Social networks ___________ the sense of underachievement (height).
Have you found the following suffixes? How many other verbs can you form using them?
-ise (-ize)
-en
-fy/-ify
-ate
Let us know and join us next Thursday at 12.30pm!
See you then!
Answers: 1. organise 2. soften 3. identified 4. irritated 5. heighten.
Exploring how new words are formed really shows the creativity of language and how we adapt it over time, and having a good speaker can make hearing these subtle sounds and pronunciations much clearer, enhancing both learning and appreciation of language evolution, which ties in nicely with understanding phonetics and articulation in everyday speech.
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