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Suffixes (-ing, -ive, -ivities) #1 (permalink) Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:56 am   Suffixes (-ing, -ive, -ivities)
 

Hi ,

Are these sentences correct ?..

by the way , we used " ACT " word plus suffixes ..( ing - ive -ivities ...etc

1- My grandmother is 89 ,but she's still very Acting or Active !!

2- We do a lot of Activities or Active in class to learn English

3- Acting is not usually a well-paid job . ( is it right ? )

Thanks a lot

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Suffixes #2 (permalink) Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:21 am   Suffixes
 

Hercules wrote:
by the way , we used " ACT " word plus suffixes ..( ing - ive -ivities ...etc

1- My grandmother is 89 ,but she's still very active!!

2- We do a lot of activities in class to learn English

3- Acting is not usually a well-paid job . ( is it right ? Yes. :lol:)


Hi Herc

The correct answers are in bold face type.

By the way, you shouldn't capitalize acting, active, activity, etc. within a sentence.

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Suffixes #3 (permalink) Mon Jul 10, 2006 16:39 pm   Suffixes
 

Oh... Amy :D

Thanks a lot :roll:

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