ENGLISH - NOUN - FORMATION

NOUN  -  FORMATION

MODEL   I

Noun to Noun

Agent     agency                                                      Boy        boyhood Friend     friendship Father     fatherhood Leader    leadership Partner    partnership Acid        acidity

King      kingdom         kingship    Judge     judgement      justice Child     children          childhood Actor      action             act

Proper nouns as nouns Boycott – boycott Sandwich - sandwich Xanthippe - xanthippe God - god China - china Acronyms as nouns LASER –laser RADAR – radar MASER – maser RADIO – radio

MODEL   II

Adjectives   To  Nouns

Absent – absence Able – ability Absurd – absurdity Acidic – acidity Active – activity Bitter – bitterness Broad – breadth Bankrupt – bankruptcy Busy – busyness Brave – bravery Brief – brevity Cruel – cruelty Chaste – chastity Civil – civility Compulsory - compulsion Coward – cowardice Curious – curiosity Dense – density Dark – darkness Deep – depth Equal – equality False – falsehood Ferocious – ferocity Ferociousness Fertile – fertility Financial – finance Frail – frailty Free – freedom

Gay – gaiety Generous – generosity Great – greatness High – height Honest – honesty Hot – heat Humble – humility Immense – immensity Inferior – inferiority Intense – intensity Just – justice Local – locality Long – length Liberal – liberty Merry – merriment Moist – moisture Obedient – obedience Perfect – perfection Pious – piety Private – privacy Public – public, publicity Pure – purity Poor – poverty Proud – pride

Rare – rarity Real – reality Royal – royalty Severe – severity Splendid - splendour Supreme - supremacy Strong – strength Sad – sadness True – truth Vain – vanity Vacant – vacancy Wide – width Wise – wisdom Young – youth

MODEL   III

Verbs    to    Nouns

Admit – admission Act – action – actor Add – addition Accomplish – accomplishment Agree – agreement Break - breakage Bear – birth Bless - bliss Behave – behaviour Believe – belief Beautify – beautification, beautifier, beautician Choose – choice Combine – combination Convert – converter, conversion Carry – carriage, carrier, cage Collide – collision Commit – commitment Compel – compulsion Conceive – conception Consume – consumer, consumption Drink – drinker, drunkard Deny – denial Depart - departure Die – death Decide – decision Draw – draft Enjoy – enjoyment Enthuse – enthusiasm Excel – excellence Expel – expulsion Electrify - electrification Fail – failure Fear – fright Fly – flight Flow - flood Give – gift Grieve - grief Grow – growth

Heal - health Hate – hatred Know – knowledge Learn – leaning Laugh – laughter Lend – loan Live – life Lose – lost, loss Mix – mixture Marry – marriage Mean – meaning Narrate – narration Obey – obedience Object – objection Oblige – obligation Occupy – occupation Offend – offence Please – pleasure Press – pressure Perform – performance Practise – practice Precise - precision Respond – response Receive – reception Reduce – reduction Relieve - relief Speak – speech Seize - seizure See – sight Slay – slaughter Strike – stroke Translate – translation,  translator Think – thought – thinker Vary – variance

MODEL   IV

Verb  and  Noun  same

Build, catch, cry, make, raise, shout, feat, doubt, fear, hope, love, stand, try, walk, wish, bear, show, work, pull, eye, watch, will, post, loot, book, cook, strike, flow