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the letters added to the end of a root that change the part of speech of the word.
Suffixes can form verbs:
-en, e.g. strengthen
-efy, e.g. liquefy
-d, e.g. respond
-ate, e.g. liquidate
-ise, e.g. idolise
Suffixes can form nouns:
-ment, e.g. amendment
-ion, e.g. situation
-age, e.g. bondage
-ness, e.g. happiness
-ity, e.g. reality
Suffixes can form adjectives:
-ful, e.g. beautiful
-some, e.g. wholesome
-ive, e.g. responsive
-en, e.g. woollen
-able, e.g. digestible
Suffixes can form adverbs:
-ly, e.g. beautifully
(also called reported speech) what someone said or reported in the voice of the third person,...
a verb that does not take a direct object (and may or may not have an indirect object), e.g. He...
a male character in a literary work, often the protagonist, that is admired or identified with...
lighting that comes from behind a subject, silhouetting the subject. This creates a sinister or...
a shortened form of a word, where the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter(s), e.g....