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Derivation Rules
1-Noun

Noun Suffixes: -tion -sion -ment -ence -ance -acy -ity –ism - age – dom – hood –
ness – ship – ty – ure - ( -er -or - ist = person)

The (Noun) is used after..

1- Prepositions ( of, in, on, by, off, about , with, ...)

-They mainly focused on tourism in their meeting.

2- Articles ( a, an, the)

-Another craft practiced in Madaba is the creation of ceramic items

3- Demonstratives (this, that, those, these)

-This advertisement is taken from Jordan Times.

4 - Possessive (‘s, my, his, her, your, our, their, its)

-Osama’s success in exams pleased me.

5- Quantifiers / determiners (some, all, any, lots of, many, much, no, both, each, every, (a)few,
(a)little …)
- There is no important of discussing like this issue now.
-Sometimes you find several traditions in just in just one country.

6- Adjective + noun
- What they all had in common, however, was a strong belief that it is viable.
7- Ordinal/ cardinal numbers
-I can’t tolerate a second failure.

8- have (MV) ‫بمعنى يملك‬

-Students should have motivation to get high grades.
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2- Adjective
Adjective Suffixes: less – ful –ble- en – ish – lar – ike – ous – tial – ve – al - ial -ic
-ed -ary - ory -ant – ent
The (adjective) is used after..
1- (so, too, very, quite, seem, appear, look, become, get, feel, smell sound is are, was, were,
am)

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2- the most……………. - more ……………….than

3-as………………. as
-Because she is very creative, she will get the job.
-That man looks suspicious.
-What he told me was practical.

2. (after adverb Ending in – ly)

-Mona is really persuasive, she will convince you.
-The highway is extremely dangerous, try not cross it.
-His case is seriously critical.
-The merchandise is obviously defective.
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3-Verb:

suffixes Verb ( en- ize- ise - ate – fy -ute) // ((ate-fy-eed-ise-ize))

The (verb) is used after..

(can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, have to, must, ought to, used to, to, in
order to, so as to, do, does, did)

-Employers should simplify the procedures to the new employees.

-The headmaster may activate the new regulation soon.

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4- Adverb

Suffixes adverb : (ly)

The (adverb) is used after:

- Adverb , S+V……..
- S+ HV + adverb + MV …….
- S + V + (O)……..adverb
- S + adverb + MV

Examples:

-The girl sang beautifully.

-She eagerly helped me.

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verb noun adjective adverb meaning

secure security secure securely ‫يؤمن‬
allege allegation alleged allegedly ‫ادعاء‬
appear appearance apparent apparently ‫يظهر‬
belong belonging - - ‫ينتمي‬
improve improvement improved - ‫يحسن‬
replace replacement replaceable - ‫يستبدل‬
solve solution solvable - ‫يحل‬
unlike - unlikely - ‫من غير‬
‫المحتمل‬
trust trust trustworthy - ‫يثق‬
dedicate dedication dedicated - ‫يكرس‬/‫يخلص‬
familiarise familiarity familiar - ‫مألوف‬
converse conversation conversational - ‫يتحدث‬
free freedom free freely ‫يحرر‬
assume assumption assumed assumedly ‫يفترض‬
believe belief believable believably ‫يعتقد‬
unbelievably
clear clearance clear clearly ‫يزيل‬/‫يوضح‬
clarify clarity/clarification
organise organisation organised - ‫ينظم‬
devastate devastation devastated devastatingly ‫يدمر‬
favour favour favourable favourably ‫يفضل‬
press pressure pressing - ‫يلح‬
interest interest interesting interestingly ‫يهتم‬
interested
state statement stated - ‫يذكر‬
activate action/activity/activist active actively ‫ينشط‬
tense tension tense tensely ‫توتر‬
- academy academic academically ‫اكاديمية‬
- viability viable - ‫فعال‬
aware awareness aware - ‫وعي‬

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urge urgency urgent urgently ‫يحث‬

malnourish malnutrition malnourished - ‫نحيف‬
malnourishment
understand understanding understandable understandably ‫يفهم‬
renew renewal renewable renewably ‫يجدد‬
- chemist/chemistry chemical chemically ‫كيمياء‬
connect connection connected connectedly ‫يتصل‬
- fortune fortunate fortunately ‫حظ‬
attend attendance/attention attentive attentively ‫يحضر‬
- ecstasy ecstatic ecstatically ‫سعيد‬
emit emission emissive - ‫يبعث‬
- torrent torrential torrentially ‫تدفق‬
sense sensation sensational/ sensationally/ ‫يحس‬
sensible/ sensibly
sensitive
interpret interpretation interpretive - ‫يفسر‬
contribute contribution contributing -
tackle - tackling -

**Choose the correct answers from those given:

1- The two sides need to sit down and find a ___________.
A) solution B) solve C) solvable

2- It will be difficult to find a suitable __________ for Laila when she leaves her post.
A) replacement B) replace C) replacer D) replaceable

3- The __________ against him are shocking, but he denies all of them.
A) allegedly B) alleged C) allegations D) allege

4- There has been an ___________ in the standard of living in my country.

A) improvement B) improve C) improvable D) improvably

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5- Many people switched to online news sites because of rapid __________ in mobile.
Internet technology and the digital media itself.
A) improvements B) improve C) improvable D) improvably

6- Many employees of print media ____________ lost their jobs due to the widespread
closures of local and regional press offices.
A) organisations B) organise C) organizer D) organisable

7- __________, this strategy worked as it pleased both readers who preferred print and
the new online readership.
A) Clear B) Clearly C) Clarification D) Clarify
8- However, and perhaps __________ , not only are the big printed dailies still here, but
they are still the preferred form for people to get news.
A) believe B) unbelievably C) unbelievable D) unbelievability

9- We can perhaps conclude that digital media isn't simply a _________ for old-fashioned
print media, but rather a compliment.
A) replacement B) replace C) replaceable

10- Anyway, surely it is the __________ of the press that matters, rather than the way
information is presented to us?
A) freedom B) free C) freely D) freeman

11- The girls were ___________ to discover that they were both the same age, fair-
haired, blue-eyed and the same height!
A) astonish B) astonished C) astonishment D) astonishingly

12- The story of the Buxton girls is a reminder that just because something is
__________ unlikely, it doesn't mean it's impossible.
A) high B) height C) highly

13- You will get _________ unless you take an umbrella.

A) soak B) soaked C) soaking

14- So even if you eat vegan, rely on solar power and feel __________ about endangered
species but still take a plane, you shouldn't consider yourself green.
A) strong B) strongly C) strength D) strengthen

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15- She finds it difficult to strike up a __________ with somebody she doesn't know.
A) conversely B) conversation C) converse D) conversing

16-1 don't think I made a __________ impression in the interview.

A) favour B) favourable C) favourably D) favour

17-Amina was__________ when her cat died.

A) devastate B) devastated C) devastation D) devastatingly

18- This website aims to raise __________ of issues that affect t young people.
A) aware B) awarely C) awareness

19- My computer has broken so I need to find a ____________.

A) replacement B) replace C) replaceable

20- There has been a lot of __________ between the neighbours since they had an
argument.
A) tense B) tension C) tensely