Formação dos substantivos (The formation of nouns)

Exemplos: student, man, house, sky, Monday, France, hope, information.

Substantivos com sufixos que formam algumas profissões:

• R

Exemplos: baker, builder, designer, manger, speaker, teacher.

• ER

Exemplos: engineer, footballer, gardener, lawyer, photographer, trumpeter, butcher, carpenter, grocer, plumber, usher.

• OR

Exemplos: actor, author, director, doctor, editor, professor, solicitor, surveyor, tailor.

• IST

Exemplos: cellist, pianist, violinist, geologist, physicist, economist, scientist, chemist, artist.

• IAN

Exemplos: mathematician, musician, politician, statistician, historian, librarian, technician.

• ANT

Exemplos: accountant, assistant, attendant, consultant, informant, inhabitant.

• ENT

Exemplos: resident, superintendent.

Alguns sufixos formam substantivos abstratos:

• TION

Exemplos: information, situation, solution, defnition, promotion.

• SION

Exemplos: explosion, persuasion, invasion, conclusion, decision, conversion, recession.

• MENT

Exemplos: amusement, judgment, excitement, argument, statement, arrangement.

• NESS

Exemplos: sadness, readiness, usefulness, redness, business.

• ANCE – ENCE – ANCY – ENCY

Exemplos: independence, attendance, accountancy, effciency, nuisance, emergency, conscience.

• ABILITY – IBILITY

Exemplos: probability, respectability, possibility, responsibility.

• ISM

Exemplos: classicism, communism, realism, liberalism, socialism, romanticism.

Outros sufixos que também forma substantivos:

• AL

Exemplos: arrival, committal, denial, dismissal, proposal, refusal, withdrawal.

• DOM

Exemplos: kingdom, wisdom, random, condom.

• HOOD

Exemplos: likelihood, neighborhood, childhood, fairhood.

• TH

Exemplos: breadth, depth, length, width.