SUFFIX ‘NESS’ TO CHANGE
FORM OF THE WORD
PRESENTATION PREPARED
BY JYOTHI SINGH
SUFFIXES ARE ADDED AT THE
END OF THE WORD
• EXAMPLE- CLEVER + NESS= CLEVERNESS
IT IS A CLEVER FOX= CLEVER IN THIS SENTENCE
IS DESCRIBING WORD
FOX IS KNOW FOR ITS CLEVERNESS.
ADDING NESS MADE IT A NOUN
NOTE
• ADDING NESS CAN CHANGE AN
ADJECTIVE ( DESCRIBING WORD)
INTO NOUN
ADDING NESS CAN ALSO CHANGE A
VERB INTO NOUN
WHEN MAIN WORD ENDS WITH ‘Y’
IT CHANGES INTO ‘I’
• SILLY + NESS= SILLINESS
• TIDY + NESS = TIDINESS
• LOVELY + NESS = LOVELINESS
NOTE – THESE WORDS HAVE TWO SOUNDS,
CALLED DOUBLED SYLLABLED WORD
IN SINGLE SOUNDING WORD LIKE ‘DRY’
‘Y’ REMAINS THE SAME
=DRYNESS
ADD ‘NESS’ TO ROOT WORDS
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KIND
NEAT
FIT
WICKED
FOOLISH
CARELESS
WILLING
KINDNESS
NEATNESS
FITNESS
WICKEDNESS
FOOLISHNESS
CARELESSNESS
WILLINGNESS
NOW FILL THE SENTENCES USING NESS
WORDS
• JIMMY IS A CLEVER BOY. HE IS WELLKNOWN
FOR HIS -----------------------------HE ALWAYS GETS GOOD MARKS FOR HIS ------------------------------------ IN HIS NOTEBOOK.
JIMMY ALSO RUNS EARLY MORNING TO
IMPROVE ------------------------- OF THE BODY
ANIMALS COME TO HIM . THEY KNOW HIM FOR
HIS -------------------------