Hello As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X"

Hi... I've been thinking through this problem and would appreciate some input... both suffixes -ish and -like turn a noun into an adjective, but there is a difference seen in the meanings each of them give to words. If one compares childish

Its me again. I guess the proper thing to do is to go with the common usage; however, is there any formal way of creating new words like this, or do people just start using the one they feel like and whichever passes the test of acceptance becomes

Hi again, In my view / In my opinion / From my point of view , Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe. This may be ´ ... because our currency is cheaper than the euro or the British pound. As a South American capital, Buenos

Hi people! Correcting is giving me a really hard time and I'd appreciate it if you could take some minutes to read this since you've been so helpful!! Here's the original version: In my point of view , Buenos Aires is less expensive than

I don't know of a very complete list, however there is a book called 501 English verbs that gives 501 of the most common verbs and their tenses. I think you can get a CD of it. Other than that you might just look for a dictionary that lists the

Just so you don't think you're being ignored-- I can't imagine such a list having been composed, unless by someone working on a program similar to your own. It does not seem like a profitable exercise otherwise.

I really don't know anything about it. But off the top of my head, it would seem the more independent words a language has, the more complex it may be. Instead of having a more limited set of base words, the analytic language has a large sets

I need a list of English words and their different forms. ie: loan loan loan loanable loan loaned loan loaner loan loaners loan loaning loan loans or busy busied busy busier busy busies busy busiest busy busyness busy busy busy busying

Hi Teachme, I don't think it's clear what you're asking. Do you mean common words that mean one thing by themselves, but can be joined with other words or prefixes, or suffixes, to mean something else, like: 'fox' and 'glove', then