CAE Use of English Part 3 // Cambridge English: Advanced Use of English Part 3 [C1]
How to pass the CAE Use of English Part 3
Part 3 of the Advanced Use of English is the ‘Word Formation’ task. In this activity, you’re once again given a text with eight missing words. However, unlike in Part 2, for each of the eight gaps you are given a ’stem’ word that you have to transform to find the correct answer. You need to read the sentence (and wider text) carefully in order to work out which part of speech is required. For example, you could be given the stem word ‘signify’ (a verb), and need to come up with the adverb ‘significantly’, as in this example:
The upper layers of Earth’s oceans have cooled __________ over the past two years, even though the planet as a whole is warming up. SIGNIFY
REVIEW COMMON SUFFIXES in the CAE Use of English Part 3
He’s such a gorgeous, adorable dog!
In part 3, if you’re lucky the answer might come to you straightaway, but you can’t rely on luck. You need a strategy for what to do if the answer doesn’t magically strike you. That’s why it’s really important to have a good knowledge of affixes. That’s the collective name for prefixes and suffixes: a group of letters that we add to the beginning (prefixes) or ends (suffixes) of words to either change their meaning or their part of speech.
Let’s look at suffixes first:
Education, infection, action, competition – these four nouns all share the same common suffix: ‘-tion’.
Joyful, meaningful, hopeful, revengeful – in this case the adjective suffix is ‘-ful’.
Communicate, generate, illustrate, demonstrate – these four verbs share the same suffix: ‘-ate’.
So how does knowing about suffixes help you in part 3? Imagine that through the context of the sentence you’ve worked out that the missing word must be a noun, but you don’t know the noun of this particular stem word… If you know the typical noun suffixes, you can run through them and see if any of them jog your memory (= make you remember). It might be enough to remind you. Or if not, then at least you can make an educated guess.
So now it’s time to test yourself for the CAE use of English Part 3
Look at these common suffixes and decide which part of speech they’re usually associated with (answers at the end of the post):
-ism -ive -ful
-ship -ly -ese
-able -ous -icy
-ise -ness -ally
-hood -en -sion
Takeaway: If your Advanced exam is coming up soon, you’re limited in how much you’ll be able to expand your vocabulary. Maximise your chances by focusing on frequently occurring suffixes for each of the four main parts of speech.
CONSIDER IF YOU NEED A NEGATIVE PREFIX
Isobel is disaffected and unfulfilled in her work.
So you’re au fait (= familiar) with frequently used suffixes and how to change from noun to adjective etc. The next thing you need to consider is that the missing word will sometimes have a negative/opposite meaning.
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Chapters: CAE Use of English Part 3
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