SUFFIXES FOR AGENTS

In your daily writing or speaking you always form doers or agents from verbs.  And without your knowledge your memory and processor (brain) supplies the suffixes and form the agents and enrich your vocabulary bank.  Read on please.

 

He is the owner of this large estate.  He employs some 100 laborers to maintain the estate and the farm around the estate.  Tax collectors of the city know him personally as he was a consultator in the income tax office before becoming the inheritor of his father vast property. 

 

Notice the suffix ~er, ~or, ~eer.  There are some suffixes which are used to make agent from Verbs and Nouns.  Generally, apart from the afore-mentioned suffixes you use ~ary, ~ar, ~ier are used to make agents or doers. 

 

Uses of suffixes enrich one’s vocabulary and one should master the uses of various suffixes to make words from words. 

 

 

WORDS	DOER/AGENT
Own	Owner
Travel	Traveler
Examine	Examiner
Orate	Orator
Collect	Collector
Revolution	Revolutioner
Translate	Translator
Lie	Liar
Sail	Sailor
Geography	Geographer
Profit	Profiteer
Auction	Auctioneer
Report	Reporter
Visit	Visitor
Bank	Banker
Navigate	Navigator
Law	Lawyer
Buy	Buyer
Make	Maker
Mine	Miner

 

 

 

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