SUFFIX ‘NESS’ TO CHANGE FORM OF THE WORD

1. SUFFIX ‘NESS’ TO CHANGEFORM OF THE WORD PRESENTATION PREPARED BY JYOTHI SINGH

2. 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

3. NOTE • ADDING NESS CAN CHANGE AN ADJECTIVE ( DESCRIBING WORD) INTO NOUN ADDING NESS CAN ALSO CHANGE A VERB INTO NOUN

4. 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

5. ADD ‘NESS’ TO ROOT WORDS • KIND KINDNESS • NEAT NEATNESS • FIT FITNESS • WICKED WICKEDNESS • FOOLISH FOOLISHNESS • CARELESS CARELESSNESS • WILLING WILLINGNESS

6. NOW FILL THE SENTENCES USING NESS WORDS KINDNESS, FITNESS, CLEVERNESS, NEATNESS • 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 -------------------------