physically or emotionally. Both words are adverbs that describe how someone hurts you.
Some Words don’t Change
A few words, such as “love” can be both a verb and a noun:
“I love you” uses the word as a verb.
“Love is a wonderful thing” uses the word as a noun.
Some words can be an adjective and an adverb without attaching a new suffix, like “fast”.
“I drive a fast car” uses the word to describe as an adjective to describe the car, which is a noun.
“He runs fast” uses the word as an adverb to describe how he runs, which is a verb.
Summing Up
There are many ways to change a verb into a noun or an adjective into an adverb and so on. There are a number of specific rules concerning certain suffixes. Teaching all of these rules will take longer than we time for in this lesson. For now, you just need to know that a word can change so that when you are writing, you can choose to use the right form of a word. Now, you can also recognize the most common suffixes and be able to spot them in your reading.