Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 2 – Episode 45 – Vocabulary – Noun Suffixes -ness, -ship, -dom

There’s always time and room for understanding suffixes.  These suffixes are used to describe a person’s state of “feeling.”

Which suffix, -ness, -ship, or -dom, can we add to the words down below?

Words: bored, free, friend, happy, ill, king, leader, lonely, mad, relation, sad, weak.

Answers in the podcast.

Complete the sentences using the noun form of the appropriate words above.

 

1. That’s a crazy idea.  It’s ______________!
2. ___________ is being able to control and lead a group of people.
3. To be the other team we need to find their _____________.  There has to be something that they’re not good at.
4. He loves the ______________ of being able to do what he likes, when he likes.
5. What’s the _____________ between you guys? Are you guys boyfriend and girlfriend?
6. The flu is a very common ____________.
7. As the saying goes, money can’t buy you _______________.
8. I think television is popular because of the _____________ that people feel when they have nothing to do.

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