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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| -ness, -ty (suffixes) |
| are added to adjectives to bring about their functional shift to nouns: sad becomes sadness; tender becomes tenderness; sure becomes surety; certain becomes certainty. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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