y/ty/ity honest→honesty 诚实
difficult→difficulty 困难
cruel→cruelty 残酷;残暴
safe→safety 安全
disable→disability 无能;伤残
responsible→responsibility 责任
名词、动词转换为形容词
[全析考法]
单句语法填空
1.(2018·全国卷Ⅰ)Running is cheap, easy and it's always ________ (energy).
解析:energetic 根据句子结构可知,此处应该使用与其前的cheap, easy相同形式的形容词energetic作表语。
2.(2018·全国卷Ⅱ)According to the World Bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total ________ (globe) fertilizer consumption.
解析:global 此处和total一起修饰名词短语fertilizer consumption,意为"全世界的化肥总消耗量",故用其形容词形式global作定语。
3.(2018·6月浙江高考)The obvious one is money; eating out once or twice a week may be ________ (afford) but doing this most days adds up.
解析:affordable 根据语境可知此处作表语,所以要用形容词形式。
4.(2014·全国卷Ⅱ)There were many people waiting at the bus stop, and some of them looked very anxious and ________ (disappoint).
解析:disappointed 和前面的anxious并列,表示人的内心活动,应使用ed形式的形容词,此处表示"他们中有些人看起来既焦虑又失望"。
[谨记规则]
后缀 例 词 able accept→acceptable 可接受的
comfort→comfortable 舒适的
fashion→fashionable 时髦的
suit→suitable 合适的
reason→reasonable 有道理的