Suffixes

 

- Ee	passive	employee	подчиненный
-er	active	employer	работодатель
- ful	with	careful	внимательный
	quantity	spoonful	полная ложка
- ish	quality	childish	как ребенок
	rather	smallish	маловат
- less	without	careless	рассеянный
- proof	safe against	waterproof	водонепроницаемый
V + ar	person	liar	лжец
V + er	person	robber	грабитель
V + or	person	creator	творец
V + ist	person	typist	машинистка
V + ian	person	musician	музыкант
V + age	abstract meaning	shortage	нехватка
V + al	action	proposal	предложение
V + ance	aсtion	annoyance	раздражение
V + ation	abstract meaning	organisation	организация
V + ence	abstract meaning	preference	предпочтение
V + ion	abstract meaning	confusion	путаница
V + ment	abstract meaning	management	управление
V + sion	abstract meaning	suspension	приостановка
V + sis	abstract meaning	analysis	анализ
V + tion	abstract meaning	direction	руководство
V + y	abstract meaning	perjure	лжесвидетельство
Adj + ance	аbstract meaning	tolerance	толерантность
Adj + cy	аbstract meaning	truancy	прогулы
Adj + ence	аbstract meaning	obedience	подчинение
Adj + ion	аbstract meaning	desperation	отчаяние
Adj + iness	аbstract meaning	happiness	счастье
Adj + ity	аbstract meaning	popularity	популярность
Adj + ment	аbstract meaning	contentment	удовлетворенность
Adj + ty	аbstract meaning	royalty	авторский гонорар
Adj + y	аbstract meaning	honesty	Честность
V + able	adjective	bearable	Терпимый
V + ive	adjective	decisive	Решающий
Adj / N + en	verb	lighten	Освещать

1.Fill in the gaps with the appropriate prefixes:

 

1) The … government protesters marched to parliament.

2) John … slept and was late for work.

3) Many people who wanted tickets were disappointed because the organizers had … estimated the band’s popularity.

4) He is taking a … Atlantic flight from London to New York.

5) When the ambulance came, the man was … conscious after being knocked down by the car.

6) The … president of the United States was honoured at a ceremony, five years after he resigned.

7) People who can only speak their own language are called…. lingual.

8) Superman is a comic strip character who has … human strength.

9) There were violent scenes as … government and anti-government demonstrators fought outside parliament.

10) …. racial fighting between the two minorities had led to civil war in the country.

11) John left his job because he was … able to deal with such a large amount of work.

12) The two countries …. operated to prevent the shipment of drugs from one to the other.

13) The child looks very thin. I think he must be … fed.

14) Don’t … feed the dog or it’ll get fat.

15) The media gave her so much attention that she became a … star overnight.

16) He never goes out or talks to people; he’s so … social.

17) Tom knew the information was somewhere in his … conscious, but he could not remember it.

18) I always find the day after Christmas an.. climax.

19) The man had to … apply the paint because the first coat wasn’t sufficient.

20) Ghandi achieved a lot through … violent action.

 

2. Give the opposites to the following words:

Underpay -; overestimate -; multilingual -; nutrion -; multilateral -; unicameral -; responsible; pre-arrival -; governmental -; national –

 

3. Fill in the gaps:

 

1) The …. (long) of the journey was beginning to cause a lot of ….(frustrate) for everyone involved. Unfortunately, father got the blame, as he had been responsible for the … (organize) of the trip.

…..(impatient) had begun to set in when we realized we’d been given the wrong ….(direct) by a well-meaning pedestrian. What is more, father’s …. (popular) was not …. (increase) by his … (insist) that we stop every hour or so to observe the scenery. The trip to France, he’d said, would …. (broad) our horizons and provide us with both….. (amuse) and …. (educate). However, in …. (real), it turned out to be an …. (bear) waste of time and effort. It was then that we made the …. (decide) never to listen to one of our father’s …. (propose) again.

 

 

THE ATTRIBUTIVE GROUP.