The affix “en” can serve as both a prefix to forms verbs such as “encourage” and “enlarge”, and as a suffix to form verbs or adjectives such as “soften” and “wooden”.
举一反三
- The suffix can combine with verbs to form adjectives, for example, dependent.
- In old English the addition of the suffix-yan to an adjective would change the word into a c______ verb, just as the Modern English suffix -en added to adjectives to form such verbs as blacken, whiten, redden and awaken.
- The prefix "re-" can combine with verbs to form new verbs. Sometimes the newly formed verbs means the action or process that the original verbs refer to is done a second time, like "rebuild".
- Adverbs describe or modify _________.( ) A: verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and whole groups of words B: verbs C: verbs, adjectives and other adverbs D: verbs and adjectives
- Unlike regular verbs, irregular verbs do not have past forms which can be predicted. And irregular verbs are formed by either changing their base forms or keeping these forms the same. (T/F)