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Adjective Formation from Nouns & Verbs

This document lists common nouns and their derived adjectival forms in English. It shows that adjectives are often formed by adding "-ous", "-ful", "-y", or "-al" suffixes to the related noun. Some nouns form their adjectives irregularly, such as "child" becoming "childish" and "north" becoming "northern". The document provides examples of over 40 common noun-adjective pairs in English.

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Adjective Formation from Nouns & Verbs

This document lists common nouns and their derived adjectival forms in English. It shows that adjectives are often formed by adding "-ous", "-ful", "-y", or "-al" suffixes to the related noun. Some nouns form their adjectives irregularly, such as "child" becoming "childish" and "north" becoming "northern". The document provides examples of over 40 common noun-adjective pairs in English.

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FORMING ADJECTIVES

NOUNS
VERBS
adventure
care
caution
child
collection
collect
comfort
danger
enjoyment
enjoy
fame
fool
height
help
hope
imagination
imagine
joy
length
love
man
north
obey
peace
please
pride
science
sense
strength
success
sun
talk
truth
value
wisdom
wool
youth

ADJECTIVES
adventurous

careful
cautious
childish
collective
comfortable
dangerous
enjoyable
famous
foolish
high
helpful
hopeful, hopeless
imaginary
joyful
long
lovable
manly
northern
obedient
peaceful
pleasant
proud
scientific
sensible
strong
successful
sunny
talkative
truthful
valuable
wise
woolen
young

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