/i:/ e.g. beat, seat, neat, key, meet, lead, beast etc.
/i/ e.g. bit, sit nymph, kid, skill, nip, bib etc.
/e/ e.g. bed, bread, said, many, red, leopard. etc
/æ/ e.g. cat, lack, pack, cab, cast, blast
/a:/ e.g. car, dart, calm, heart, clerk
/ɒ/ e.g. pot, what, gone, mop mob, etc
/ᴐ:/ e.g. war, pork, saw, sword, craw, law.
/u/ g. good, cook, put, could, should, look
/u:/ e.g. pool, blue, screw,
/Ʌ/ e.g. cut, come, blood,
/з:/ e.g. first, purse, earn,
/Ә/ e.g. about, baker, sailor,
ASPECT: Vocabulary Development
TOPIC: (Suffixes – Noun Derivation)
Noun Derivations
A suffix is the part of a word which is put after a given word also to form a new word. You can see this in these diagrams.
Suffixes – Noun derivatives
Some suffixes can help us form nouns from other words. Let us look at some of these in the table below.
Suffixes Original word New word
-ness happy happiness
wicked wickedness
sick sickness
like likeness
good goodness
gentle gentleness
tired tiredness
rough roughness
-ment punish punishment
move movement
nourish nourishment
establish establishment
amaze amazement
agree agreement
disappoint disappointment
-er box boxer
neat neater
do doer
sing singer
teach teacher
preach preacher
own owner
-or sail sailor
sect sector
conduct conductor
direct direct
prosecute prosecutor
tail tailor
suit suitor
-ship friend friendship
scholar scholarship
apprentice apprenticeship
court courtship
lord lordship
steward stewardship
-hood boy boyhood
state statehood
child childhood
parent parenthood
man manhood
-ation organize organization
associate association
institute institution
rotate rotation
graduate graduation
mature maturation
segregate segregation
distribute distribution
-ant inhabit inhabitant
disinfect disinfectant
resist resistant
repent repentant
import important
EVALUATION
Use each of the suffixes below to form four nouns:
-ment, -or, -ship, -ant, -al, -hood, -cy, -ant, -er, -ity
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