Adjectives can sometimes be made by adding a suffix to a noun or a verb.

Noun / Verb
care expense interest danger attract fame enjoy friend act

Adjective
careful / careless expensive interesting / interested Dangerous attractive famous enjoyable friendly active

We can add prefixes to adjectives to express not or the opposite meaning.

Adjective
tolerant patient comfortable relevant logical loyal

New adjective
intolerant impatient uncomfortable irrelevant illogical disloyal

A) Make an adjective by using a prefix.

1. not responsible ____________________________ 2. not possible _______________________________ 3. not legal __________________________________ 4. not lucky __________________________________ 5. not correct ________________________________ 6. not true __________________________________ 7. not just ___________________________________

B) Fill in the missing nouns / verbs or adjectives into the correct gaps.

Noun / verb beauty wonder

Adjective

competitive useless communicate mountainous decorative heath thirst fat juice

C) Add a prefix to the following adjectives.

1. He was short and overweight and generally fairly ____attractive.

2. Hes been _____honest in his dealing with us.

3. It is ______polite to point at people.

4. It was _____possible to sleep because of the noise.

5. Shes _____ certain whether to go to Boston or not.

Adjectives can sometimes be made by adding a suffix to a noun or a verb.

Noun / Verb care expense interest danger attract fame enjoy friend act

Adjective careful / careless expensive interesting / interested Dangerous attractive famous enjoyable friendly active

We can add prefixes to adjectives to express not or the opposite meaning.

Adjective tolerant patient comfortable relevant logical loyal

New adjective intolerant impatient uncomfortable irrelevant illogical disloyal

A) Make an adjective by using a prefix.

a) not responsible ____________________________ b) not possible _______________________________ c) not legal __________________________________ d) not lucky __________________________________ e) not correct ________________________________ f) not true __________________________________ g) not just ___________________________________

B) Fill in the missing nouns / verbs or adjectives into the correct gaps.

Noun / verb beaty wonder

Adjective

competitive useless communicate mountainous decorative heath thirst fat juice

C) Add a prefix to the following adjectives.

a) He was short and overweight and generally fairly ____attractive. b) Hes been _____honest in his dealing with us. c) It is ______polite to point at people. d) It was _____possible to sleep because of the noise. e) Shes _____ certain whether to go to Boston or not.