Read the excerpt from “The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II.”
“Anne: Do you think a girl should shouldn’t kiss anyone except if she’s engaged or something?”
“Peter: I suppose it’d (depend) on the girl”
How would adding the Latin suffix -ent change the word “depend”?
A. It would change the verb depend to dependent, which can be an adjective or a noun, according to its meaning in the sentence.
B. Depend independent will become synonyms.
C. The suffix -ent want to change the meaning of the word depend to independent.
D. Independent would take on it meaning that is opposite to depend.