Investigating the Students Ability to Recognize Adjectives through Suffixes

Adjectives are important parts of speech that are used in every day language. Their importance is clearly obvious as there is no sentence without an adjective of any kind. They can be easily recognized if one has the knowledge to differentiate between the different parts of speech of the language. an‎d when words have adjectival suffixes, the task will be easier. The present study aims at investigating fifth-year institute students’ ability to identify adjectives by their suffixes. To fulfill the aim of this study, the researcher has constructed a test, which comprises two questions: the first is a multiple-choice question at the recognition level and the second is a completion question at the production level