{"id":1218,"date":"2015-03-27T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:46:17","slug":"suffixes-and-parts-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/suffixes-and-parts-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffixes and Parts of Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of ways to improve your TOEFL vocabulary. This very blog has many<\/a> posts<\/a> to help you memorize certain<\/a> words<\/a>. You can also look to the Academic Word List<\/a> for a list of words likely to appear on the TOEFL exam. Unfortunately, it\u2019s not possible for this blog (or any one resource) to compile a list of all<\/em> the words you might come across on the TOEFL. Even the longer Academic Word List leaves out many important TOEFL words.<\/p>\n

Along with vocabulary guides, you should also understand the suffixes<\/em> of TOEFL words. Suffixes are end parts of words that mark a word\u2019s part of speech, or its meaning, or both. For example, in the word \u201cwanted,\u201d \u201c-ed\u201d is a suffix added to \u201cwant.\u201d It tells you that the whole word, \u201cwanted,\u201d may be a past tense verb. (I wanted <\/strong>a bicycle when I was a child.) It also tells you that it could be an adjective. (Customers lined up to buy the greatly wanted <\/strong>new Iphone.)<\/p>\n

Different suffixes can give a word several different grammar uses and several different meanings. Take the adjective \u201cspecific.\u201d \u201cSpecific\u201d means \u201cspecial and unique in some way.\u201d Change the suffix and you can get:<\/p>\n