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SUFFIXES 2 - Making Verbs with Endings
Now we will make "actions" from "things" and "qualities."
1. Nouns to Verbs: Take a "thing" we want to make into an "action".
To make something "human" we add human to -ize = humanize.
(-ise in British spelling) Here are some more:
hospital + ize = hospitalize
liquid + ate = liquidate
2. Adjectives to Verbs: We take a "quality" we like and add an ending
to make an "action:"
central + -ize = centralize
black + -en = blacken
legal + -ize = legalize
3. Sometimes the basic word is changed to take the
ending.
regular makes regulate by dropping the
-ar and adding -ate.
Difficult ....but you won't see this often, we hope.
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