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A word may have one or more
related forms. Notice, for example, how the word decide changes forms:
Nouns are used to
express people, places, physical objects, concepts, and activities. They are
found in the following positions:
Verbs are used to
express the action or state of being of the subject. Verbs must agree in
number and person with the subject:
Adjectives are words
that modify (describe) nouns. Adjectives have only one form, which is used
with both singular and plural nouns. With the exception of this/these and that/those, adjectives have no singular or plural form:
Adjectives have two positions.
They usually come before the noun they describe or after a verb that links
the adjectives to the subject:
To determine if a word is an
adjective, ask yourself whether it can answer the question ‘What kind of
_____?’ Look at the following sentence:
Adverbs modify
verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Like adjectives, adverbs have no
singular or plural form:
To determine if a word is an
adverb, check whether it can answer questions beginning with ‘How?’, ‘When?’,
or ‘How often?’ Look at the following sentences:
Adverbs can be used in many
different positions in the sentence:
Most adverbs are formed by
adding –ly to the adjective form:
Some adverbs and adjectives
have the same form:
The adverbs forms highly, lowly, deeply, nearly, hardly, and
lately exist, but they have
different meanings from the adverb form without –ly.
The adverbs warmly, hotly, coolly, coldly, presently,
shortly, scarcely, and barely also
have different meanings from their adjective forms:
Suffixes are groups
of letters placed at the end of a word to modify its meaning or change it
into a different word form. They are helpful in identifying word forms:
The following chart can help
you identify word forms:
Exercise G7 Use Exercise G7 to
practice your skills in using word forms correctly.
Exercise G7 Checking word forms
In the underlined word is the
wrong word form, write the correct form. Write the name of the correct form
in parentheses.
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Social
interaction involves both verbal and nonverbal forms of interaction.
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Roaches tolerant
and even thrive in climatic extremes.
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Child-development
specialists have noted that cooperate games encourage self-esteem
in young children.
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Each year
bees pollinate several billion dollars’ worth of bee-dependent
crops.
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In folktales, the wolf
usually symbols greed and rapacity.
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