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Interact in Meaningful Ways:
Modifying and Creating nouns with Affixes
Learning Targets
• Use knowledge of affixes to determine the meaning of words. • Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in
basic ways.
Modifying and creating nouns with affixes
One reason English has so many words is affixes. Affixes are syllables added
to base words to create new words. Becoming familiar with the meanings of affixes will help you understand these new words. In this activity, you will identify and analyze how suffixes can be used to form nouns from other parts of speech.
Language Resources: noun-Forming suffixes
ACTIVITY 3.6
suffix
Meaning of suffix
example
Meaning of new noun
-er or -r
one who
paint + -er = painter
one who paints
-hood
state of being
hardy + -hood = hardihood
state of being hardy
-ice
state of being
just+
-ice = justice
state of being just
-ment
act or result of
improve + -ment = improvement
result of improving
-ness
state of being
good + -ness = goodness
state of being good
-y
state of being
villain + -y = villainy
state of being a villain
The chart below lists lines from the scene from A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Circle a word in each line that is a noun formed with a suffix. Then briefly note how the noun was formed. Finally write the meaning of the suffixed noun. Use the examples in the Language Resources box to help you.
noun Formed with a suffix
How the noun Was Formed
Meaning of noun with suffix
Oh me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!
the suffix -r is added to the verb juggle
“one who juggles”
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness?
I have no gift at all in shrewishness;
I am a right maid for my cowardice:
Unit 4 • The Challenge of Comedy • Part 3: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream 177
Language
Resources
Literary Terms
affix: a prefix or suffix
base word: a word with no affixes
prefix: a word part added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning suffix: a word part added to the ending of a base word
to change its meaning
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