The document discusses common noun endings in English. It provides 15 common noun (thing) endings such as -ism, -ness, -ion, -ment, -ity, -age, -ship, -th, -dom, -hood, -ure, -cy, -try, -logy, and -graphy. It also lists 14 common noun (person) endings like -or, -er, -ee, -ist, and -ician. The document concludes with an example worksheet for forming nouns from other parts of speech using suffixes like -ment, -ance, -er, -ist, -an, and -ess.

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COMMONNOUN (THING) ENDINGS
1. –ism : baptism, criticism, organism, heroism, patriotism, alcoholism,
barbarism, dwarfism, parallelism
2. –nce : importance, significance, dependence, arrogance, resistance,
subsistence
3. –ness : bitterness, conceitedness, darkness, hardness, kindheartedness
4. –ion : excision, damnation, pollution, suggestion, a notion, an action,
vexation, concoction, completion.
5. –ment : abridgement, accomplishment, banishment, commencement,
embodiment, enhancement, excitement, fragment, garment,
ornament,
treatment
6. –(i)ty : purity, authority, dubiety, majority, superiority, humidity,
cruelty,
faculty, honesty, plenty, safety, subtlety
7. –age : baggage, carriage, cartage, damage, dotage, hermitage, homage
language, luggage, marriage, passage, tillage, tonnage, vicarage,
village.
8. –ship : ambassadorship, citizenship, headship, professorship, chairmanship,
fellowship, scholarship, companionship,
friendship, hardship, relationship, craftsmanship,
entrepreneurship, horsemanship, membership,
courtship
9. –th : bath, birth, death, oath, growth, stealth, filth, health, length,
strength,
Cấu tạo Danh từ - Đuôi của từ (WORD ENDINGS)

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truth, depth,
breadth, wealth.
10. –dom : earldom, freedom, kingdom, officialdom, wisdom
11. –hood : childhood, falsehood, sisterhood, brotherhood,
neighborhood, likelihood, livelihood
12. –ure : closure, picture, scripture, legislature, nature, failure, pleasure,
13. –cy : bankruptcy, captaincy, democracy, privacy, delicacy,
advocacy, confederacy, accuracy, obstinacy, piracy, ,
aristocracy, expectancy, efficiency, presidency,
sufficiency, deficiency
14. –(t)ry : rivalry, ancestry, carpentry, industry, greenery, machinery, scenery,
bakery, brewery, bravery,
slavery, archery
15. –logy : archaeology, geology, sociology, theology, zoology
16. –graphy : bibliography, biography
B. COMMON NOUN (PERSON) ENDINGS
1. – or : actor, creator, doctor, monitor, sculptor, successor, guarantor,
conqueror, donor, governor, solicitor, tailor, visitor. bachelor
2. – er : hatter, geographer, astrologer, cottager, foreigner, Londoner,
New Yorker, northerner, villager, airliner, old-timer, sorcerer
3. – ee : employee, payee, devotee, escapee, conferee, absentee, refugee.
4. – ist : chemist, dramatist, economist, geologist; dentist, pianist,
tobacconist;
Buddhist, Darwinist, idealist, Marxist, racist, optimist, pessimist
5. – ician : magician, physician, musician, electrician, beautician,
politician, statistician, mathematician, mortician,
6. – ant (10%) : assistant, accountant, consultant, contestant, inhabitant

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BÀI TẬP DANH TỪ TỔNG HỢP
1. A shoe of leather is a………
a. leather shoe b. shoe leather c. shoed leather d. skinned leather
2. This is my …………plantation.
a. mother-in-law b. mother-in-laws'
c. mother-in-law's d. mother's-in-law
3. …………… shoes are always of various types.
a. Woman' b. Womans' . c. Women's d. Womens'
4. Glasses for holding beer are……..
a. glass-beer b. beerglasses
c. glasses of beer d. beer's glasses
5. A horse which runs races is called a…………..
a. horse race b. race-horse c. racing horse d. races-horse
6. A table used for writing is called…………..
a. table-writing b. a writing table c. a written table d. a writing table
7. They are ………...
a. woman-professors b. womans-professors
c. women professors d. womens' professors
8. We have got a lot of………..
a. book of exercise b. exercises-books
c. exercise's book's d. exercise-books
9. They'd like to spend the week-end at ………
a. their aunt's b. their aunt
c. their aunt's house d. their aunt house
10. The…………. is long.
a. knife's handle b. knife'handle
c. knife handle d. handle of the knife

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11. Do you hear any voice? It's………
a. my wife's b. my wife
c. my wife's voice d. the voice of my wife
12. That man has two………..
a. brother-in-law b. brothers-in-law
c. brother-ins-law d. brother-in-laws
13. The………. toys are cheap.
a. child's b. children's c. childrens' d. childrens
14. Next month we have two ………..holiday.
a. week b. weeks c. weeks' d. week's
15. We must follow…….
a. the will of the dead b. the dead of will
c. the dead's will d. the dead will
16. A meeting held during the night is a………..
a. meeting night b. nightly meeting
c. night-meeting d. nighty meeting
17. It has belonged to our family. It's the……….
a. families b. families' c. family's d. familys'
18. …………..for instance, might fmd it hard to laugh at a Russian joke.
a. The French b. A French
c. A man in France d. If you were French
19. As he hated…….., he decided to desert.
a. the life of army b. life in the army
c. life of the army d. the army for life
20. The latest exhibitions, films or plays are only…………
a. by bus a short distance away b. a short distance by bus away
c. a short distance away by bus d. the distance of a short bus away

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THAM KHẢO VỀ WORD FORMATION
(Phần này như cô đã nói chỉ mang tính tham khảo và nhớ theo dạng “group” các từ lại chứ đừng
hỏi cô “vì sao lại thế?” nhé! ^^)
b) V + -ment/-ance/-ence/-age/-ery/-ing/-al ---> N

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c) V + -er/-or/-ar/-ant/-ent/-ee/ ---> N

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d) N + -ist/-an/-ian/-ess ---> N

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