Form Four PART OF SPEECH (2)

1. Form FourPART OF SPEECH (2)

2. 1.We can know a word’s part of speech by looking at its ending. Nouns often end in : 1.-ence, e.g.convenience, intelligence. 2.-ion, e.g.administration, education. 3.-ist, e.g.artist, tourist. 4.-ity, e.g.ability, personality. 5.-ment, e.g.argument, development. 6.-th, e.g.length, warmth.

3. Verbs often end in: 1.-ate, e.g.activate,rotate. 2.-ed, e.g.allowed,invented. 3.-en, e.g.harden,shorten. 4.-ify, e.g.clarify, purify. 5.-ing, e.g.eating,playing. 6.-ise, e.g.compromise. Adjectives often end in: 1.-able or –ible, e.g. capable, intelligible. 2.-ed, e.g. astonished, interested. 3.-ful, e.g. colourful, useful. 4.-ing, e.g. amazing, exciting. 5.-ious, e.g. cautious, delicious. 6.-ive, e.g. active, attractive. 7.-less, e.g. careless, hopeless. 8.-y, e.g. cloudy, sleepy.

4. 2.We can also know the word’s part of speech by looking at the words before or after it. Nouns often come after: 1.Articles, e.g. a bus, anegg, theteacher. 2.adjectives, e.g. easywork, politestudents. 3.possessive adj., e.g. mycomputer, herbooks. 4.verbs, e.g. eatlunch, listen tomusic, study English.

5. Verbs often come: 1.after subjects, e.g. Amyis tall. Helikes pizza. 2.after modals, e.g. can swim, musttry harder. 3.before objects, e.g. beginthe exam,eatpizza. 4.before adverbs, e.g. atenosily, finishedeasily. 5.before adjectives, e.g. istall, seemdifficult. Adjectivesoften come after: 1.articles and bf nouns, e.g. a largeflat, thefatboy. 2.adverbs of degree, e.g. ratherboring, reallybusy. 3.possessive adj, e.g. our new car, yoursmall bag. 4.the perceptive verbs, e.g.appear, be, look, seem, taste

6. Adverbs often come: 1.after ‘have’, ‘has’ and ‘had’ and bf past participles e.g. haverecentlyarrived, hascompletely finished. 2.after subjects and bf verbs, e.g. Mikeusuallyruns. 3.after verbs, e.g. atequickly, dancesbeautifully. 4.before an adj, e.g.absolutelyhappy, extremelygood veryeasy.