• E.g. nutrition – nutritious; caution – cautious. • There are some exceptions to the above rules e.g. delicious, fictitious, anxious.

The shus sound is often found in adjectives and can be spelt in two different ways: cious or tious. For example: delicious, precious, suspicious.

We could describe the attic as very spacious. By adding the suffix -cious to the root word, we have turned a noun into an adjective.

21 февр. 2013 г. · atrocious, shockingly brutal or cruel; audacious, disposed to venture or take risks; auspicious, indicating favorable circumstances and good luck.

By adding the suffix –cious to the root word, we have turned a noun into an adjective. space. spacious.

Handy hint: Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in a vowel letter and the root word also begins with one.

By adding the suffix –cious to the root word, we have turned a noun into an adjective. space. spacious.

The suffix -cious generally turns a noun into an adjective. Exceptions or harder root words to identify include these words: anxious, conscious, delicious, ...

LESSON 31 "Tious" or "cious" ending is written /SHUS. Some reporters may add a final S to the /RB (ish) ending to symbolize this suffix. ...