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English for Tourism & Hospitality (108) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh 2020/2021

Verb Suffixes

suffix meaning example
-ed
-en past-tense version of a laughed, climbed, called,
-ize, -ise verb missed
-ate
-ify -efy become soften, fasten, lengthen,
strengthen, blacken

to cause or to become memorialize, authorize,
commercialize, advertise

to do, make or become decorate, formulate,
fabricate

to make Beautify, humidify,
liquefy,rarefy

Adverb Suffixes

suffix meaning example
-ly
in what manner bravely, simply,
-ward
something is being done honestly, gladly
-wise
in a certain direction backward, wayward,
awkward, afterward

in relation to clockwise, edgewise,
lengthwise, otherwise

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