Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks in the song lyrics. We hope you enjoy today’s choice: I Want It All by the British band Queen. Written by Queen’s guitarist and background vocalist Brian May, the song is about having ambitions and fighting for one’s goals, “for the dreams of youth” as the lyrics say. Do you want it all?
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Exercise
Fill in the missing words. ⇩
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Grammar – Suffixes 
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SUFFIXES
- A SUFFIX is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word that change its form and meaning. For example:
- – Drive – driver / Write – Writer (From verb to noun)
- – Happy – happiness / Kind – kindness (From adjective to noun)
- – Home – homeless / Cash – cashless (From noun to adjective)
- – Soft – soften / Short – shorten (From adjective to verb)
- Sometimes when we add the suffix, the end of the original word changes. For example:
- – Beauty, plenty + -ful: beautiful, plentiful (-y to -i + -ful)
- – Crazy, lonely + -ness: craziness, loneliness (-y to -i + -ness)
- – Sensible, flexible + -ity: sensibility, flexibility (-le to il + -ity)
- – Remit, omit + -ion: remission, omission (-t to -ss + ion)
- Some common suffixes and their meanings are:
- – -able: capable of being (predictable, adaptable)
- – -en: become (soften, fasten)
- – -er: Someone who performs an action (teacher, dancer)
- – -ful: Full or or remarkable at something (grateful, wonderful)
- – -ion: Action or process of something (celebration, decision)
- – -ity: State or condition of something (probability, equality)
- – -less: without (cashless, fearless)
- – -ly: in a certain way (bravely, honestly)
- – -ment: Action or result of something (improvement, movement)
- – -ness: State or quality (kindness, darkness)
- – -sion: State or being (confusion, tension)
Good song, I’ll use for training 💪🔥
I love Queen!!
Good song, I love “Just the way you are” from Billy Joel
Freddie Mercury is just a legend. He is one of the greatest singers ever. He was phenomenal on stage. And I also admire his guitarist Sir Brian May.
Among my Queens favorite song is ‘Bohemian rhapsody.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ym7X_wCsPQ
Rick Beato gave this interview on the internet; it is quite interesting.