Form Nouns denoting the Instrument, Object, or Consequence, of an action, from :

Grant, prick, pose, gird, lease, thrive, restrain, bind, drive, weave, thieve, shrive, flee, spin, freeze, feign, see, endorse, shoot, consign.

II. Nouns of Classic origin are formed by various prefixes (see pages 142-145), and by the following suffixes:

1. Signifying the agent or person generally.

Create, reside, conform, attend, divide, adverse, adhere, psalm, consul, music, expedient, part, Israel, repent, animal, inspect, contrite, conspire, decent, utter, function, urgent, art, correspond, press,

*Ment has become naturalized in English, that is it can be added to roots of Saxon origin, as, bewilderment.

Many words are spelled either with or, or our; the latter is preferable in the case of words derived from the Latin through the French.

monarch, sceptic, please, royal, orator, hero, supreme, lenient, act, opine, true, infringe, cruel, assume, just, Calvin, physic, agile, novel.

§ 5. Derivative Adjectives.

I. Adjectives of Saxon origin are derived from nouns, other adjectives, and verbs, by the following prefixes and suffixes.

2. Marking the small quantity, or entire absence

of the quality denoted by the root.

Less; as, thought, thoughtless. from nouns. as, black, blackish.

Ish;

from adjectives.

*Nouns ending in ty change y into e before ous; as, plenty, plenteous.

+ Some adjectives in y are derived from verbs; as stick, sticky.

Ey after a noun ending in y; as, clay, clayey.

Many adjectives in ed are compound adjectives, formed of a noun or adjective preceded by a noun; as, web-footed, hot-headed. (See § 2. par. 5, page 135.) Others are formed simply from nouns, by adding ed; as, wretch, wretched.

Exercise 11:

Form Adjectives marking the greater or less degree, or the total object or quality indicated, from :

presence, in a absence of the

Grace, danger, heed, health, pity, bone, right, use, leaf, penny, quarrel, guilt, smart, virtue, win, thrift, law, breeze, duty, frolic, down, hazard, sense, red, irk, flower, art, blithe, court, dream, truth, beauty, air, white, crag, hair, full, dull, weary, storm, might, lone, stone, fire.

Form Adjectives denoting resemblance, fitness, or direction, from :

Swine, south, hair, good, thief, heaven, boy, prince, west, brute, ghost, war, clown, earth, Rome, friend, life, home, man, Turk, east, earth, like, soldier, gentleman, king, ink, knave, pitch, glass.

Form Adjectives denoting material, and Partici, pial Adjectives, from:

Wood, leather, rag, spin, hum, brass, wool, miss, wax, tooth, age, earth, wainscot, lead, board, carpet, gravel, wretch.

II. Adjectives of Classic origin are formed either by prefixes (pp. 142, 143, 144), or by the following suffixes.