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ACTIVITY 3.6
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Quick conversation
• Share your work with a partner. Take turns explaining your analysis of the nouns formed from suffixes. Discuss whether your partner agrees or disagrees with your choices. Record notes from your discussion.
In my opinion, the noun means .
I agree with your choice because .
Write a short explanation
After analyzing how certain nouns can be formed with suffixes, you have enough information to explain how some longer nouns are formed with two or more suffixes. Take, for example, the word shrewishness in this line from A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
I have no gift at all in shrewishness
The model paragraph below explains how this noun was formed. Write a similar explanation of how one of these nouns was formed.
joyfulness cheeriness
Try to structure your explanation in the same way the model paragraph does.
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What other nouns can be formed from this suffix?
Can you think of other suffixes that form nouns?
ModEl: SHort Explanation
The noun shrewishness is an example of a noun with two suffixes. The base word is shrew, a noun that names a small animal. The suffix -ish is added to shrew to form shrewish, an adjective that means “like a shrew.” Finally the suffix -ness is added to the adjective shrewish to form shrewishness. This is a noun meaning “the condition of acting like a shrew.”
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