The 'ity' nouns may be derived from adjectives. E.g.: familiarity (from familiar), prosperity (from prosperous which is derived from the verb- prosper), security (from the adjective- secure which is derived from the verb- secure).
The 'ity' nouns may be derived from adjectives or nouns. E.g.: moral (noun as well as adjective).
I have shortened Shaw's sentences to facilitate easy reading.
QUIZ
CHOICE BOX
DEPRAVITY
DIGNITY
FAMILIARITY
IMMORTALITY
LAITY
MAJORITY
MORALITY
PROSPERITY
RESPONSIBILITY
SECURITY
Fill in the blanks selecting appropriate words. To see the words used by Shaw, hover your mouse on the word 'ANSWER'.
1: What you want is a daily ___ity with
people's insides.ANSWER
2: I don't believe in ____ity: I'm
a disciple of Bernard Shaw. ANSWER
3: She has something of the grace and romance of a wild creature, with a
good deal of the elegance and ___ity of a fine lady. ANSWER
4: All professions are conspiracies against the ___ity: And we
can't all be geniuses like you. ANSWER
5: Having made a promise to your wife, which my
principles will not allow me to break, to stimulate those phagocytes,
I will stimulate them: And I take no further ___ity.ANSWER
6: He asked me to advance him 50 pounds on the ___ity of the drawings. ANSWER
7: You will be driven to the conclusion that the ___ity
of them would be, as my friend Mr J: M: Barrie has tersely phrased it,
better dead: Better dead. ANSWER
8: Promise me that ___ity: Promise me you
will not make a little hell of crape and crying and undertaker's horrors
and withering flowers and all that vulgar rubbish. ANSWER
9: He looked the picture of health and strength and ___ity. ANSWER
10: Whenever I meet ___ity and self-possession without any discoverable
basis, I diagnose good family. ANSWER
11: Are these two matters so well
arranged at present that a disregard of the usual arrangements indicates
real ____ity?. ANSWER
MY COMMENTS
We have to learn a lot from the beautiful phrases used by Shaw.
