(6.3.1)--学术英语词汇第三讲讲义.pdfVIP

Session3 SuffixesinAcademicVocabulary 1. Suffix means the affix, which is added to the end of a word, and which usually changes the part of speech of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicatethegrammatical caseofnounsor adjectives,andverb endings,which form theconjugation ofverbs. 2. Erosion Deposition Cratering Precipitation Condensation Sublimation measurement 这些单词都是名词，词尾是-sion,-tion,-ing和-ment 。这些名词都由动词加了 后缀演变而来，they indicate anatural, geologicalprocess, a state/condition, or a result from an action. Evaporation means a process in which