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Forming Adjectives from Nouns and Verbs
In English, we can create adjectives from nouns and verbs by adding the following suffixes:
- -ous
- -al
- -ly
- -able
- -y
- -ing
- -ed
- -ful
- -less
- -ive
- -ic
Nouns to Adjectives:
| Nouns | Adjectives |
|---|---|
| crowd | crowded |
| comfort | comfortable |
Verbs Turned into Adjectives:
| Verbs | Corresponding Adjectives |
|---|---|
| disappoint | disappointed |
| help | helpful |
Test Your Knowledge:
Transform the following words into adjectives:
- dirt → dirty
- accept → acceptable / accepted
- base → basic
- week → weekly
- use → useful / useless
- eat → edible / eatable
- drink → drinkable
- educate → educational / educated / uneducated
- enjoy → enjoyable
- nature → natural
- miracle → miraculous
- mass → massive
- emotion → emotional / emotive
- luxury → luxurious
- risk → risky
- relax → relaxing
Test Answers:
- I can’t imagine a more relaxing way to spend one’s semester holiday this year.
- I went down for lunch feeling hungry.
- I have rented a summer cottage near a natural hill landscape.
- The traffic in İzmir after 5 PM is so crowded that we always reach our houses very late.
- Today my class was so noisy that I had to warn all of my pupils.