FALSE FRIENDS AND SUFFIXES

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FALSE FRIENDS ANDSUFFIXES
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FALSE FRIENDS

• False friends are pairs of words in two languages
  or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that
  look or sound similar, but differ in meaning.

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EXAMPLES

• NOTICE- darse cuenta NOT noticia
• PAVEMENT- acera NOT pavimento
• SENSITIVE- sensible NOT sensitivo
• MATRON- cuidadora NOT matrona
• CONFIDENT- seguro de sí mismo NOT confidente

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SUFFIXES

• In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes called a
  postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed
  after the stem of a word. Common examples are
  case endings, which indicate the grammatical case
  of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which
  form the conjugation of verbs.

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Suffixes to form names

• Names formed from verbs
• -ment agree agreement
• -tion rotate rotation
• -er sing singer
• -sion confuse confusion
• -or collect collector

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• Also some names are formed with the addition of
  suffixes ity, -ness, -ence/-ance, -ship to
  adjectives,verbs and names.
• -ity common comunity
• -ship relation relationship
• -ness mad madness
• -ence obedient obedience
• -ance appear appearance

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Suffixes to form adjectives I

• The suffixes ed and ing are added to some verbs
  to form adjectives.
• -ed crash crashed
• -ing interest interesting
• The suffixes ful and less are added to some
  names and help us to know the meaning of the
  resultant adjectives.
• -ful peace peaceful
• -less harm harmless

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Suffixes to form adjectives II

• Finally also some adjectives are formed adding
  the suffixes ous, -al, -able, -ive,-ant/ent some
  names and verbs.
• -ous continue continuous
• -al vacation vacational
• -able profit profitable
• -ive express expressive
• -ant resist resistant
• -ent obbey obedient

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Exercise false friends
pregnant

• 1-Did you know that Chrissie got _______________
  (embarrassed/pregnant) on holiday in Ibiza?
• 2-The ________________ (signature/subject) I hate
  most is maths.
• 3-Begoñia is a very ________________ (kind
  /sympathetic) person.
• 4-Keep ________________ (removing/stirring) the
  soup the whole time.
• 5-I couldn't agree more. That's a very
  ________________ (sensible/sensitive) idea.

subject
kind
stirring
sensible
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EXERCISE SUFFIXES
economical

• My car is really very (economic) ____________
• There was a (comedy) __________ opera on TV last
  night.
• He's a very (ambition) _________ man.
• The school organises (education) ___________
   visits.
• She cries a lot because she's really very (sense)
  _________ .
• They held a long (philosophy) __________
  discussion about the subject.
• The plane was caught in an (electricity)
  ____________ storm.

comedian
ambitious
educational
sensitive
phylosophical
electrical
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WORK REALISED BY

• Javier Pérez
• Rafa Ros
• David Romero