Suffixation
Comparatively not large quantity of suffixes gave ten thousand of derived words: nation - national, nationality, nationalize, nationalization, nationalist, nationalism. Besides forming a new word a suffix also forms a corresponding part of speech. Thus the main classification of suffixes keeps this in view. In Modern English the most widely spread are the following suffixes: 1. Suffixes of nouns: age - marriage ance/ence - distance, difence ancy/ency - constancy, tendency ant/ent - assistant, student dom - freedom er - writer ess - actrees hood - motherhood ing - building ion/tion/sion/ation - rebellion, creation, tension, explanation ist - novelist ism - communism ment - government ness - tenderness, greatness ship - friendship ty - honesty 2. Adjective-forming suffixes: able/ible/uble - unbearable, soluble al - formal, local ic - public ical - ethical ant/ent - dependent, rependant ary - revolutionary ate/ete - accurate, complete ed/d - wooded ful - delightful ian - Australian ish - Irish ive - active less - useless like - lifelike ly - manly ous/ious - tremendous, curious some - tiresome, wholesome у - cloudy, dressy, handy
3. Numeral suffixes: fold - twofold teen – fourteen th - seventh ty - sixty
4. Verb - forming suffixes: ate - facilitate, instigate er - glimmer, glitter en - shorten fy/ify - terrify, beatify ise - organize ish - establish
5. Adverb - forming suffixes: ly - coldly ward - upward, north-wards wise - likewise
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