English affixes

I. Find the definitions of the following prefixes:

1) inter- a) more than one, many;

2) post- b) later than, after;

3) bi- c) before, in preparation;

4) pre- d) former and still living;

5) multi- e) between, among a group;

6) ex- f) two, twice, double.

II. Make up new words out of the given ones with the help of the affixes. Translate them into Russian:

-ly: high, hopeless, first, beautiful, main, natural, nice, hard, sad, cold, easy, glad, great, lucky, bad, original, careful, willing;

-less: job, rain, use, money, heart, sleep, noise, smoke, hair, life, limit, child, mother, ground, home;

-ful: colour, beauty, meaning, success, peace, joy, thought, wonder, care, use, hope;

-ic: economy, history, geography, period;

-ment: to govern, to manage, to treat, to equip, to punish, to achieve, to advertise, to enjoy, to establish, to develop, to agree, to appoint, to move, to improve, to settle, to announce, to punish;

-er(or): to read, to write, to speak, to translate, to found, to produce, to work, to build, to trade, to export, to direct, to lead, to fight, to listen, to teach, to report, to dance, to instruct, to run, to sing, to drive;

-ess: mister, painter, tiger, lion, actor;

-(t)ion: to prepare, to explain, to congratulate, to occupy, to prevent, to celebrate, to connect, to populate, to perfect, to recognize, to create, to consider, to express, to represent, to protect, to elect, to educate, to graduate, to examine, to add, to decorate, to inform;

-(s)ion: to express, to impress, to suppress;

-(i)ty: active, major, similar, variable, difficult;

-ist: science;

-ance(ence): to depend, to exist, to enter, to appear, to differ, to attend;

-al: nation, to refuse, profession, pedagogics, arithmetic, education, technology, psychology, physiology, exception, industry, centre, influence, finance, economic, geographic, historic, politics, periodic, practice;

-ian: Mathematics, technique, physics;

-ing: to understand, to interest, to trade, to develop, to grow, to teach, to begin, to train, to draw, to mould, to open, to break, to create, to educate, school, to direct, to guide;

-ism: capital, social, feudal, nominal;

-ous: mountain, religion, danger, poison, to continue, glory, courage, fame, labour, industry, victory;

-en: sharp, broad, black, less, strength, height;

-ize: sympathy, character, patron, organ;

un-: answered, necessary, known, forgettable, employment;

ever-: improving, expending, green, lasting;

dis-: order, to continue, to like, to organize;

re-: to consider, to elect, to form, to produce, to place, to build, to write, to read, to ask, to make.

III. Make up new words from the following ones:

1. inter-; b) post-; c) bi-; d) pre-; e) multi-; f) ex-:

1. …lingual;

2. …date;

3. …arranged;

4. …national;

5. …director;

6. …graduate;

7. …personal;

8. …husband;

9. …annual;

10. …date.

IV. Give the corresponding verbs to the following nouns. Translate them into Russian:

Competition, demonstration, misinformation, association, participation, restriction, determination, difference, misunderstanding, agreement, drawing, meeting.

V. Read the following words, find the suffixes and define what words they are made from:

Pressure, construction, illiterate, uncomfortable, necessity, drawing, difference, agreement, collection, disappear, deepen, unreality, cultural, indifference.

VI. Make up new words from the given ones:

1. a class, a room;

2. a bed, a room;

3. a class, a mate;

4. a week, an end;

5. news, paper;

6. a recorder, a tape;

7. a school, a girl;

8. a birth, a day;

9. a chair, a man;

10. a way, a rail.

VII. Make up new words using prefixes or suffixes:

1. To build, to create, to connect, to educate, to sail;

2. Child, friend, leader, hope, truth, beauty, rain, peace, help, colour, power, joy, care, use;

3. Bright, cold, dark, free, weak.

8. Find the words with the wrong affixes (prefixes and suffixes):

1. inexpected, 2. unhappy, 3. non-pleasant, 4. unadequate, 5. incapable, 6. discomplete, 7. misapprove, 8. anti-like, 9. disappear, 10. non-honest, 11. inexperienced, 12. under-dress, 13. disload, 14. unwrite, 15. reconstruct, 16. ununderstand, 17. mislead, 18. overtime, 19. dismiss, 21. under-value, 21. postwar, 22. anti-aircraft, 23. counteract, 24. international, 25. inconscious, 26. inlarge, 27. enrich, 28. prehistoric.