You stay anxious to learn or anxious to learn? This is a good anxiety, because wanting to know the Portuguese language is a great virtue! Knowing how to write the words correctly is very important for those who want to be proficient in the writing modality; therefore, Escola Kids will explain to you one more question about orthography. Come on? Good reading!
Anxious or anxious? Well, only one of the spellings is correct. The correct form is anxious, like this, with 's' after the 'n'. Anxious is an adjective and should be used to refer to a person who is anxious, that is, who is longing for something, who is restless, anxious, who is anxiously awaiting. Ufa! There are many meanings of this little word!
But why anxious is written with 's' and not with 'c'? Good question! To answer it, it is necessary to go back in time and research the history of that word. The word anxious originates in Latin and comes from the word anxiosus, which means restless. Some words go through a kind of spelling “evolution”, and that's what happened with the word we are now studying. the 'x' of
anxiosus, has been replaced by the 's'. The same happened with the word anxiety: from anxius, has been changed to anxieties and, finally, it came to the way we know it today. When craving receive the suffix -oso (-oso = full of, provided), then we have an adjective formed from a suffix derivation.the children are anxious with the approach of Christmas.
The candidate was very anxious, so he couldn't do a good test.
Fear of public speaking and insecurity are two symptoms of anxiety.
I am anxious to find out if my team has qualified for the championship final!
Me Wish for changes in my life!
Felt craving vomiting when he got off the roller coaster!
Heads up:
like the word craving is written with an 's', all words derived from it must also be written with an 's': anxiety, anxious, anxiolytic, hankering... We usually change the 's' for the 'c' because the -ance ending is much more common in Portuguese, see agreement, constancy, disagreement, elegance, stature, begging, vigilance, pedantic etc., but you must be careful not to confuse and thus slip into the spelling of the language Portuguese. Good studies!
By Luana Castro
Graduated in Letters
