Know Your Suffixes: Practise Making Adjectives into Nouns

Adjectives are often made into nouns by adding the suffixes ness and ity.

For example:

sad + ness = sadness

real + ity = reality

Unfortunately, some words do not follow the rules.

The adjective poor does not become 'poorness' or 'poority' but poverty.

Curious drops its second 'u' and becomes curiosity, but furious does not become 'furiosity'.

The noun that goes with furious is fury.

In this activity, if you are not sure which is the correct word you can use a dictionary.