This document discusses English suffixes, including both inflectional and derivational suffixes. It provides examples of common inflectional suffixes in English like -s, -ed, and -ing. It also explains that derivational suffixes can carry lexical information and form new words. The document then lists several common noun, verb, adjective and adverb suffixes in English and provides examples of how words are formed using these suffixes.
1. SUFFIXATION WILSON BURGOS AROCA UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS – UNIVERSIDAD SURCOLOMBIANA MASTER’S PROGRAM ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
2. SUFFIX In grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an affix which is placed at the end of a word. Suffixes can carrygrammaticalinformation (inflectionalsuffixes), or lexical information (derivationalsuffixes).
3. INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXATION Some inflectional suffixes in present day English: -s third person singular present -ed past tense -ing progressive/continuous -en past participle -s plural -en plural (irregular) -er comparative -est superlative -n't negative ’s Genitive case
5. DERIVATIONAL SUFFIXATION NOUN NOUN SUFFIXES NOUN/ADJECTIVE NOUN/ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES VERB NOUN SUFFIXES ADJECTIVE NOUN SUFFIXES VERB SUFFIXES NOUN ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES IN BORROWED AND NEO-CLASSICAL WORDS OTHER ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES ADVERB SUFFIXES
6. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES ACCORDING TO THE WORD This _________ works for a gang. ________ are very serious people. It is a small book. It is a _________ I am smoking an expensive _______ Her name is Sonia. She works as a _________ During my _________ I watched too much TV RACKET LONDON BOOK CIGAR WAITER BOY
10. COMPLETE THE TEXT WITH THE CORRECT WORD “Al Jabab was a famous __________politician who travelled to the visit the _________ people in America. Although he spoke _________, he did not speak English. He hired a translator named Pete and he had a sense of __________ towards him. At the end, Al Jabab’s __________on languages was to learn English by himself in order to save the money he paid to the translator” ISRAEL REPUBLIC CHINA LOYAL IDEAL
13. COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT SUFFIX The person who writes is a writ__ The person who participates in a contest is a contest__ The person who is employed in a enterprise is an employ__ The act of exploring is called explor____ The act of being amazed is called amaze___ The act of refusing something is called a refus__
21. ACTIVITY Matching the root with the correct suffix Explaining the meaning of the suffix and how it modifies the root Writing a sentence using the matched word
