Almustansiriyah University
College of Arts
Department of English Language and Literatures
Assistant Instructor: Hayder Sadeq Naser
Material: Grammar
Year: Third
Morning and Evening Studies
Eleventh Lecture: Suffixes
During this lecture, the students will have the key words about what a suffix is. The Instructor will define the suffix as it’s found in the book. Suffixes are bound morphemes that occur after a base, like Shrinkage, failure, noisy, realize, nails. Suffixes may pile up to the number of three or four. Whereas prefixes are commonly single, except for the negative un- before another prefix. In normalizers we perhaps reach the limit with four: the base norm plus the four suffixes –al,ize, -er, -z,-s. When suffixes multiply like this, their order is fixed: there is one and only one order in which they occur. Having done this for the students is very functional that they will be able to recognize the meaning of the suffixes with the given examples. Another thing is that they have to figure out the three kinds of affixes.
Exercise 8-10
In these words, the base is italicized. After each word write the number of suffixes it contains.
1. Organists 2
2. Personalities 3
3. Flirtatiously 2
4. Atomizers 3
5. Friendliest 2
6. Contradictorily 3
7. Trusteeship 2
8. Greasier 2
9. Countrified 2
10. Responsibilities 3
Exercise 8-11
Each group contains a base and a suffix. Make each into a word. In each case see if more than one order of suffixes is possible.
1 -ed, live, -en
2 -ing, ate, termin
3 -er,-s,mor,-al,-ize
4 provinc, -s, -ism, -ial
5 -ly, -some, grue
6 -ity, work, -able
7 in,-most,-er
8 marry, -age, -ity, -abil
9 -dom, -ster, gang
10 -ly, -ion, -ate, affect