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Put the following words into the correct columns in the table. In which does the stress change?


Date: 2015-10-07; view: 576.


A UK franchisor describes how his business has evolved. Complete his account using the words given below. Change the form of the words if necessary.

Look at the way these words from the text are formed and complete the table. Is suffixation a means of word formation used in all the pairs?

 

verb Noun suffix
expand expansion  
  growth  
  success  
predict    
forecast    
  exhibition  
  consultant  
establish    
  operation  

forecast operation operator expand run consultant outlet licence exhibition operate establish

 

We negotiated our first franchise in 1984 with a young couple, Brian and Anne Webster, who opened a(n) __________ in Cambridge which they still __________ today. Following the success of this __________ we contacted a franchise __________ who was able to help us to select ten additional franchisees to set up their businesses in some of the major towns in the South of England. Since then our company has continued to __________ and today we are __________ in more than 50 locations across the country. This year, for the first time, we attended the two European franchise __________ in Berne and Paris, where we had some very promising interviews with local __________ who were interested in taking out a __________ for our master franchise. We have a __________ that by 2010 we will have a total of 120 shops across Europe and almost all of these will be __________ by franchisees.

 

confidential similar popular invent

organize careless require serve

invest prepare act disagree

willing present direct regular

-ment -ness/-ess -ity -(at)ion -or -ant
           

 


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