ENIS THIRD YEAR ENGINEERING 2017-2018

Vocabulary builder / Adjectives and adverbs

Common Adjective Suffixes (Noun Adjective)

Suffix Noun - Adjective

-AL relating to accident accidental / region regional

-ARY relating to quality or place custom customary / compliment complimentary

-FUL full of beauty beautiful / skill skillful

-IC having the nature of; caused by athlete athletic / photograph photographic

-ICAL having the nature of magic magical / practice practical

-ISH origin, nature fool foolish / sheep sheepish

-LESS without power powerless / use useless

-LIKE like like lifelike / child childlike

-LY like friend friendly / day daily

-OUS quality, nature poison poisonous / courtesy courteous

-Y like rain rainy / mess messy

Noun Forms: -al, -ance, -ence, -ery, -tion, -sion, -sure, -ment, -age, -ing, -ery, -ness, -ity, -ism, -th, -ty -y
Negative Prefixes : a-, dis-, il-, in-, im-, ir-, non-, un-.

COMMON ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES (VERB ADJECTIVE )

SUFFIXSuffix VerbVerb - Adjective

-ABLE able, can do agree agreeable

-IBLE able, can do access accessible

-ANT performing agent please pleasant

 -ENT performing agent excel excellent

-IVE causing effect attract attractive

-ING causing effect amuse amusing

relax relaxing

-ED receiving effect amuse amused

-EN receiving effect freeze frozen

ADJECTIVE ADVERB

Adj form to Ly Y--Y to ily ILY -Le to LyLE to Ic to Ically

LY

For most words, add -ly to the For words with more than one For words with more than For words ending
end of an adjective form to syllable ending in -y, replace one syllable ending in -le, in ic, replace
create an adverb. the -y with -ily. replace the -le with -ly. ic with ically.

late lately angry angrily able ably academic

academically

right rightly busy busily capable capably acoustic

acoustically

EXCEPTIONS ONE SYLLABLE EXCEPTIONS EXCEPTION

true truly dry dryly (One syllable - no subtle subtly public publicly
full fully change.) smile smiley
whole wholly coy coyly hole holey
sly - slyly rule unruly "an unruly
shy - shyly crowd"
 Adjectives and adverbs
Complete the following paragraph with an adjective or an adverb
of the bracketed words.
After buying his bike Peter went (straight)home. He was
(extreme / excited) ., and he felt very
(happy).. . (fortunate)., he rode his
new bike very (fast)..because he didn't want to be
(late) .. for the first news on TV. He (near) missed
the weather report, but he arrived (just). in time. He could
(hard) .. believe that he had spent such a long time in the
bike shop. When his girlfriend saw the bike she jumped
(high) .because she (high)..appreciated new
things. She (near).said that she wanted such a bike as well,
but she didn't say much, (just).."oh", and then she went
(straight).. to the garage and fetched her old bike.