How to form words!

FORMING NOUNS FROM VERBS

-ance (accept> acceptance), -ence (exist > existence)

-tion (produce> production), -sion (divert > diversion)

-ation (inspire > inspiration); -ication (qualify > qualification)

-isation (privatise > privatisation); -ition (add > addition)

-er (teach > teacher); -or (act > actor; -r (bake > baker)

-ing (paint > painting); -ment (judge > judgement)

-ist (type >typist); -ure (please > pleasure)

-y (discover > discovery)

FORMING NOUNS FROM ADJECTIVES

-ability (suitable > suitability)

-ibility (responsible > responsibility)

-ance (important > importance); -ence (silent > silence)

-ness (ill > illness); iness (happy > happiness)

-ity (human > humanity)

-ty/ieth (sixty/sixtieth)

FORMING NOUNS FROM NOUNS

-ian (music > musician)

-ist (science > scientist)

FORMING ADJECTIVES/ADVERBS FROM NOUNS

-all/-ally (magic> magical/magically), -ial/-ially (industry > industrial/industrially)

-ate/-ately (affection > affectionate/affectionately)

-ic/-ically (artist > artistic/artistically), -ical/-ically (economy > economical/economically)

-ful/-fully (peace >peaceful/peacefully), -iful/-ifully (beauty >beautiful/beautifully)

-ing/-ingly (interest > interesting/interestingly)

-ised (computer > computerised)

-ive/-ively (expense > expensive/expensively), -itive/-itively (sense > sensitive/sensitively)

-less/-lessly (harm > harmless/harmlessly)

-ous/-ously (glamour >glamorous/glamorously), -ious/-iously (industry > industrious/industriously)

-th/-ieth (sixty > sixth/sixtieth)

-ular/-ularly (spectacle > spectacular/spectacularly)

FORMING ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS FROM VERBS

-able/-ably (fashion > fashionable/fashionably); -ible/-ibly (flex > flexible/flexibly)

-ed (worry > worried)

-ing/ingly (annoy > annoying/annoyingly)

-ive/-ively (attract > attractive/attractively)

FORMING VERBS FROM ADJECTIVES

-ate (active > activate)

-en (sweet > sweeten)

-ify (simple > simplify)

-ise/ize (legal > legalise/legalize)