Look at the following suffixes to make adjectives. Write the adjectives from the nouns and verbs
below under the correct column.
-able -al -ic -ish -ive -ous -ual
acceptable
achievable
breakable
comfortable
enjoyable
readable
reasonable
remarkable
understandable
coastal
comical
musical
national
personal
political
regional
traditional
universal
artistic
athletic
energetic
heroic
historic
magnetic
photographic
realistic
scientific
boyish
childish
foolish
pinkish
womanish
youngish
active
aggressive
competitive
creative
effective
imaginative
possessive
preventive
dangerous
humorous
luxurious
mysterious
nervous
poisonous
various
victorious
eventual
factual
gradual
habitual
intellectual
sensual
spiritual
usual
accept
achieve
act
aggression
art
athlete
boy
break
child
coast
comfort
comic
compete
create
danger
effect
energy
enjoy
event
fact
fool
grade
habit
hero
history
humour
imagine
intellect
luxury
magnet
music
mystery
nation
nerve
person
photograph
pink
poison
politics
possess
prevent
read
real
reason
region
remark
science
sense
spirit
tradition
understand
universe
use
vary
victory
woman
young
Now use these adjectives to fill in the gaps. There may be more than one possible answer.
1. I’m sorry to say this paper is not acceptable with all these mistakes. You will have to rewrite it.
2. Don’t be so childish! Stand up and stop crying.
3. Be careful when working with this chemicals, they can be dangerous / poisonous.
4. This painting is awesome. You are such an artistic person!
5. Don’t get nervous, you can do it perfectly well if you concentrate.
6. This film is boring, I expected it to be more enjoyable.
7. My grandparents are so traditional, they don’t like modern things.
8. My best friend lives in a super luxurious apartment in the most expensive part of the city.
9. You must set a goal that is achievable, otherwise you will get frustrated.
10. This event is so remarkable that we celebrate it every year with the whole family.
11. There are too many factual mistakes in these statements, many of the things that you say are not true.
12. She is 55 years old, but she still wears youngish clothes that make her look younger.
13. I would like to live on a coastal village, right in front of the beach.
14. The arguments that she gave in the debate were very reasonable, she convinced me.
