Os substantivos são utilizados para identificar ou dar nome as pessoas, coisas e qualidades que nos circundam.
Exemplos: student, man, house, sky, Monday, France, hope, information.
Substantivos com sufixos que formam algumas profissões:
- R
Exemplos: baker, builder, designer, manger, speaker, teacher.
- ER
Exemplos: engineer, footballer, gardener, lawyer, photographer, trumpeter, butcher, carpenter, grocer, plumber, usher.
- OR
Exemplos: actor, author, director, doctor, editor, professor, solicitor, surveyor, tailor.
- IST
Exemplos: cellist, pianist, violinist, geologist, physicist, economist, scientist, chemist, artist.
- IAN
Exemplos: mathematician, musician, politician, statistician, historian, librarian, technician.
- ANT
Exemplos: accountant, assistant, attendant, consultant, informant, inhabitant.
- ENT
Exemplos: resident, superintendent.
Alguns sufixos formam substantivos abstratos:
- TION
Exemplos: information, situation, solution, defnition, promotion.
- SION
Exemplos: explosion, persuasion, invasion, conclusion, decision, conversion, recession.
- MENT
Exemplos: amusement, judgment, excitement, argument, statement, arrangement.
- NESS
Exemplos: sadness, readiness, usefulness, redness, business.
- ANCE – ENCE – ANCY – ENCY
Exemplos: independence, attendance, accountancy, effciency, nuisance, emergency, conscience.
- ABILITY – IBILITY
Exemplos: probability, respectability, possibility, responsibility.
- ISM
Exemplos: classicism, communism, realism, liberalism, socialism, romanticism.
Outros sufixos que também forma substantivos:
- AL
Exemplos: arrival, committal, denial, dismissal, proposal, refusal, withdrawal.
- DOM
Exemplos: kingdom, wisdom, random, condom.
- HOOD
Exemplos: likelihood, neighborhood, childhood, fairhood.
- TH
Exemplos: breadth, depth, length, width.
