ملخص الدرس / الثآنية ثانوي/اللغة الإنجليزية/Grammar/Forming adjectives with: ial- ful- ical- ic- able- ous-ible

We form some adjectives with these suffixes: al , ible and ic.

e.g. educational responsible economic

We form nouns with adjectives + (i) ty

e.g.: diverse => diversity

national => nationality

Some adjectives form their nouns with the ending –y:

e.g.: honest => honesty

responsible => responsibility

If the adjective - has got one syllable

doesn't end in -e 

hasn't got two vowels

doesn't end in 2 consonants we double the last letter

e.g.: big → bigger

If the adjective - has got one syllable - ends in -e

we add r to the adjective

e.g.: nice → nicer

If the adjective - has got one syllable

has got two vowels

doesn't end in-ewe add er

e.g.: loud → louder

If the adjective - has got two syllables ends in-y we change y to I and add er e.g.: easy → easier

If the adjective - has got two syllables doesn't end in-y - has got more than two syllables we write the comparative by using more + adjective 

e.g.: handsome → more handsome

interesting → more interesting