by Susan Neri-Friedwald, MS, CH, RMT
Suffixes of Adjectives
-al
-ar (spectacular) -ate (fortunate) -ble
-cial -tial -cious -tious
-ed
-ful
-ic
-ing
-ish
-less
-like
-nt
-ous
-sive -tive
-y
Suffixes of Adjectives
-al
-ar (spectacular) -ate (fortunate) -ble
-cial -tial -cious -tious
-ed
-ful
-ic
-ing
-ish
-less
-like
-nt
-ous
-sive -tive
-y
Suffixes of Verbs
-ate
-ed
-eer
-en
-er (alter, tamper) -ify
-ing -ize
Suffixes of Adverbs
-bly -ly
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