The Noun: General Notions

Exercise 1. Form nouns from the given words with the help of suffixes: “-er, -or” and translate them.

Exercise 2. Form nouns from the given words with the help of suffixes: “-ment”,“-ness”, “-ist” and translate them.

Exercise 3. Point out suffixes of the given derivative (производные) nouns. Form, wherever possible, other derivative nouns with the help of some other suffixes.

Model: direction = direct + ion → director → directness → directorship

​Examination, imagination, dictation, collection,

cooperation, cleverness, darkness, linguist, scientist, minority, priority, publicity, mathematician, musician, leadership, friendship, brotherhood, neighbourhood.

Exercise 4. Form nouns from the given words with the help of prefixes:” un-, in-, mis-, dis-, inter-, re-, pre-“.

Exercise 5. Form compound nouns from two or more stems. Use these nouns in your own sentences.

​A road, workers; tea, a pot; a bed, a room; a post, a man; a week, an end; news, paper; a class, a room; a fountain, a pen; a foot, a man; a side, a board; a man, craft; a horse, work; milk, a man; a chair, a man; trade, union.

Model: sun, glasses→ sunglasses

Exercise 6. Read the compound nouns. Translate them into Russian.

Foreman, ship-yard, man-of-war, milestone, birthday, record-player, tape- recorder, typewriter, layman, marpleleaf, handcraft, space-craft, household, housekeeping.