English Grammar Guide Suffixes: Adjectives from Nouns Usage - Noun to Adjective SuffixesThe suffixes -al -ful -ish , -en -ic nouns into adjectives .
Grammar - Noun to Adjective SuffixesNOUN → ADJECTIVE -al (do something/be something)emotion → emotional -ful (have something/be something)beauty → beautiful -ish (have something/be something)child → childish -en (substance)gold → golden -ic (have something/be something)base → basic Forms - Adjective : -al NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. brute brutal magic magical comic comical music musical condition conditional option optional emotion emotional post postal form formal season seasonal globe global topic topical logic logical
Forms - Adjective : -ful NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. beauty beautiful pain painful care careful power powerful harm harmful success successful help helpful thought thoughtful law lawful use useful
Forms - Adjective : -ish NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. baby babyish child childish book bookish fever feverish boy boyish self selfish bull bullish style stylish
Forms - Adjective : -en NOUN ADJ. gold golden (colour) wood wooden
Forms - Adjective : -ic NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. base basic Islam Islamic class classic poet poetic drama dramatic strategy strategic energy energetic system systematic
Symbols & Abbreviations ADJ. Adjective
Usage - Noun to Adjective SuffixesThe suffixes -less -ly -ous -y nouns into adjectives .
Grammar - Noun to Adjective SuffixesNOUN → ADJECTIVE -less (without something)care → careless -ly (frequency/be like something)month → monthly -ous (with something/have something)danger → dangerous -y (have something)cloud → cloudy Forms - Adjective : -less NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. care careless hope hopeless cloud cloudless humour humourless colour colourless job jobless end endless power powerless fear fearless sleep sleepless help helpless taste tasteless home homeless use useless
Forms - Adjective : -ly NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. coward cowardly month monthly day daily mother motherly father fatherly order orderly friend friendly year yearly ghost ghostly
Forms - Adjective : -ous NOUN ADJ. NOUN ADJ. caution cautious hazard hazardous danger dangerous joy joyous disaster disastrous miracle miraculous fame famous nerve nervous
Forms - Adjective : -y NOUN ADJECTIVE NOUN ADJ. cloud cloudy smell smelly dirt dirty spice spicy dust dusty storm stormy fault faulty sun sunny health healthy wealth wealthy ice icy wind windy rain rainy
Symbols & Abbreviations ADJ. Adjective
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