Noun Suffixes
📋 What it is
A suffix goes at the end and often sets the word's JOB. Noun suffixes make "thing" words: -tion/-sion = an act, -ment = a result, -ness = a state, -ist = a person.
🗣️ Coach says
Suffixes are name-tags. "-tion" turns act into ACTION, "-ness" turns kind into KINDNESS, "-ist" turns art into ARTIST. The ending tells you it is now a noun — a thing or a person.
🧠 Memory hook
-tion/-ment = a thing/act · -ness = a state · -ist/-er = a person who…
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What's a morpheme's favorite dance?
The root-and-branch shuffle!
😲 Whoa!
English can pile suffixes: "nation" → "national" → "nationality" — each ending nudges the word into a new job.
✅ Quick check: The suffix "-ist" means "a person who". What is a "scientist"?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
A person who does science.
A suffix signals the word's part of speech and role — noun, and here, a person.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Turn the verbs "move", "kind", and "art" into nouns using -ment, -ness, and -ist.