2. Суффиксы, образующие прилагательные.

2.1. Суффиксы, указывающие на наличие соответствующих качеств и свойств. Такие прилагательные образуются от глаголов и существительных.

А. от глаголов:

-able, -ible
to move	двигать	movable	подвижный
to extend	вытягивать	extensible	растягиваемый
-ant, -ent
to depend	зависеть	dependent	зависимый
to resist	сопротивляться	resistant	сопротивляющийся
-ive
to explode	взрывать	explosive	взрывчатый

В. от существительных:

-al
centre	центр	central	центральный
-ful
use	польза	useful	полезный
-en
wood	древесина	wooden	деревянный
-ic
magnet	магнит	magnetic	магнитный
-ar
circle	круг	circular	круглый
-ous
advantage	преимущество, выгода	advantageous	выгодный, благоприятный, полезный
-y
dirt	грязь	dirty	грязный
-ly
day	день	daily	ежедневный

2.2. Суффикс, указывающий на отсутствие соответствующих качеств и свойств:

-less
wire	проволока	wireless	беспроволочный

2.3. Суффикс, указывающий на наличие признака в слабой степени или на принадлежность к национальности:

-ish
white	белый	whitish	беловатый
Pole	поляк	Polish	польский

3. Суффиксы, образующие глаголы от прилагательных и существительных:

-en
length	длина	tolengthen	удлинять(ся)
weak	слабый	toweaken	ослаблять
-fy
intense	сильный	tointensify	усиливать
simple	простой	to simplify	упрощать
-ize
crystal	кристалл	to crystallize	кристаллизировать
real	настоящий	to realize	осуществлять

4. Суффиксы, образующие наречия:

Наиболее распространенным суффиксом является суффикс -ly.Он обычно присоединяется к прилагательным и образует наречия образа действия.

-1у
practical	практический	practically	практически
easy	легкий	easily	легко
-ward(s)	указывает направление:
inward		внутрь
onward(s)		вперед
forward(s)		вперед
upward(s)		вверх
eastward(s)		на восток

Exercise 1.		Read the following sentences and underline the suffixes in the words in italics. Write out each word and try to decide what the suffix means. Refer back to the table if you need help.
1.	Potential threats include the destruction of computer hardware and software and the loss, modification, theft, unauthorized use, observation, or disclosure of computer data.
2.	Computers enable the creation of graphics that are so realistic that they appear to have depth, even though they are actually just two-dimensional images displayed on a flat monitor, television, or movie screen.
3.	A Trojan horse may appear to be something interesting and harmless, such as a game, but when it runs it may have harmful effects.
4.	Developmentsin the television and video worlds in 1992 weren't as dramatic as in audio.
5.	The heart of the system is a laser beam optical code reader, a device that automatically reads coded labels applied to each item of baggage.
6.	In addition to response to the whole range of optical frequencies, the new detector is sensible enough to distinguish 25 separate television programs that a single laser beam might be able to carry.
7.	The objective of the new broadband microwave station in space is to learn how to extend the useful life of communications satellites and to avoid or overcome the effects of radiation.
8.	Later in 1998 the company suffered further losses stemming from labor contract disputes with other segments of the company's staff, including flight attendants, machinists, cleaners, and other employees.
9.	Although some doctors practice nuclear medicine as a full-time specialty, many more physicians in such fields as radiology, pathology, and internal medicine use aspects of nuclear medicine in their work.
10.	Beginning in 1995, the shuttle flew a series of missions to the Russian space station Mir.

The number of the sentence	The word	The suffix	The meaning of the suffix
1.	destruction
1.	disclosure
2.	depth
3.	harmless
4.	developments
5.	reader
6.	sensible
7.	useful
8.	machinists
9.	physicians
10.	Russian

Exercise 2.

Fill in the gaps with the correct suffix from the following list.

-al	-ence	-ly	-ship
-ance	-hood	-ment	-th
-dom	-ity	-or	-ward

a.	The growth in numbers of educational television stations in the past year is not the only index of active 1 __.
b.	A single fiber the wid 2__ of a human hair can transmit thousands of telephone conversations simultaneously.
c.	The current flow is caused by the voltage, or potential differ 3__, between the terminals.
d.	A conductor allows an electric current to flow through it, but it does not permit the current to flow with perfect free 4__.
e.	Scientists describe this relation 5__ between resistance, length, and area by saying that resist 6 __ is proportional to length and inversely proportional to cross-sectional area.
f.	An electric current is a move 7__of charge.
g.	Substances that do not allow electric current to flow through them are called insulat 8__s, nonconductors, or dielectrics.
h.	The element 9__unit of electricity is the absolute charge on a single electron or proton.
i.	General circulation week 10 __ papers often contain news of interest to people in a smaller area than that of a daily paper, an area such as a small city, town, or neighbour 11__.
j.	As an outer-shell electron jumps in 12__ to fill the inner-shell vacancy, the atom emits an X ray, a high-energy photon invisible to the eye.