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Grammar and Linguistics > pronuntiation words ending in -age
pronuntiation words ending in -age
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Vanessa G L
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pronuntiation words ending in -age
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can somebody tell me the rule that explains why ords endind in age have different endinds
ex. graduate (vb)/ graduate (noum) |
20 Mar 2009
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Vanessa G L
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sorry you are right! i misspelt it
the title to my question should be
suffixs ending in -ate |
20 Mar 2009
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Jayho
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Hey, good question. Here �s what I found:
The suffix ate is added to it �s root grade to make graduate which can be a noun and a verb.
�ate � as a suffix generally means
1. noun - office of e.g. delegate, directorate, emirate etc
2. verb- to do, to make, to cause, or to act upon; to do something with e.g. aerate, allocate, deviate, abbreviate etc
It can also be in adjectives.
Check out these links for more info:
Cheers
Jayho
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21 Mar 2009
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mendiv
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I don �t know if there �s a "rule" about this, but, as a native English speaker, I believe that the nouns have the schwa (uh) sound and the verbs have the long /a/ sound.
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25 Mar 2009
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