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Unit 19: Vocabulary and Usage – Noun and Verbs

-ness Notes
happiness

-ship
leadership

-ence / ance
permanence, appearance

-acy
lunacy

-age
marriage
-ity
annuity

-y
photography

-cy
fluency
Verbs

-ify
falsify, modify
-ise
modernise

Task Mention 20 verbs and write their nouns.

19.3 Adjectives

-ic
idiotic, periodic

-ful
lawful, wonderful

-able / ible
comfortable, terrible

-proof / resistant
waterproof, childproof, fireproof
-free
alcohol free beer, nuclear free zone

-less: without
hopeless, childless

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