The National-Graceless

The National is an indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York.

I picked this song because it has quite a few examples of adjectives with the -less suffix.

A suffix is a group of letters placed at the end of a word to make a new word. A suffix can make a new word in one of two ways:

1.inflectional (grammatical): for example, changing singular to plural (dog > dogs), or changing present tense to past tense (walk > walked). In this case, the basic meaning of the word does not change.

2.derivational (the new word has a new meaning, “derived” from the original word): for example, teach > teacher or care > careful

In this case we are talking about the second case. The suffix -less usually means without or void of .

The adjectives that I found in the song with this suffix are Graceless, Tasteless, Weightless, Faithless.

Can you think of any other adjectives that use the suffix -less?

LEM…xo…This post was created by Crissy who loves Indie Rock.