Monday 11 January 2016

The Fix is in. Of the pre and suf variety

I'm not sure how many of your students love lists, but I have a whole bunch of them who absolutely love lists. I think it might have something to do with the Spanish exam mentality that makes them enjoy pouring over list after list of phrasal verbs and dependent propositions. for some of them, it obviously works.
It's for that reason that I decided to spend far too many hours of my time making this list of prefixes and suffixes. It's just a list. No extra exercises, just a big long list.
The downloadable worksheet is available from the link right up there ^ it's called Just a few materials Affixation.

Anyway, there is a little taster below but for the whole docume t you'll need to click above.


Verb-forming Suffixes
Meanings
Examples

-ate / -en / -fy

-ise / -ize


make / become

render (as) / treat (as)


Activate / Shorten / Purify

Minimize / Crystallize / Idolize

Adverb-forming Suffixes
Meanings
Examples

-ally / -ly



in the manner of / with respect to


Emphatically / Musically / Nicely / Alternately





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