动词后缀:
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1、-ify意为:转为,变为(to turn into,to make or become)例词:beautify, diversify,simplify.
2、-ize;-en意为:使……,变得……(to make or become ;to make into)例词:modernize,popularize,legalize,hospitalize,symbolize,ripen,widen,heighten,threaten.
3、-ate意为:增加,使……(give or add,make or become)例词:originate, hydrogenate,validate,differentiate.
副词后缀:
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1、-ly意为:以……方式(in a...manner;etc.)
例词:happily, boldly,attentive- ly,strangely.
2、-ward(s)意为:表示方式或动作的方向(manner and direction of movement)。
例词:onward(s),backward(s),earthward(s),homeward(s),eastward(s)。
3、-wise意为:
1)按照……方式(in the manner of)例词:crabwise,clockwise.
2)就……而言(as far as ...is concerned)例词:weatherwise ,educationwise.
有一个原因的单音节词,结尾只有一个单音辅音,在加以元音后缀是,要双写这个辅音.例词:run + er = runner hit + ing = hitting.