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English–I

Notes trans (= across)
transatlantic

uni (= one)
uniform

under (= not enough)
underpaid, underfed

Word Endings

You can also make new words from the words you already know by using different endings.
For example, “The person who employs me has a fast car”. You can make this sentence
simpler, by replacing “the person who employs me” with “my employer”. This gives you “My
employer has a fast car.”

Did u know? In English you can make nouns from verbs (to employ gives employer and
employee). You can also make verbs from nouns or adjectives: government gives to
govern, modern gives to modernise and so on.

Learning what endings you can put on words means you can expand your vocabulary and say
what you mean more easily.
Some common word endings:

Task Write down some Greak and Latin roots and their generated English words other
than given in table.

19.2 Nouns

-er /- or: a person who does something
adviser / advisor, teacher, learner

-ian
optician, mathematician

-ment: result of action
improvement, advancement

-ism: name of system or belief
realism, optimism

-ist: the person who believes in the system
realist, optimist

-ion
confusion, apparition

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