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- 1. Word parts andmeanings START Vocabulary Prefixes Root words Suffixes Engage
- 2. Word parts andmeanings Once you learn the building blocks with which words are made, many previously unknown words become meaningful and useful NEXT HOME Many English words were taken from Greek or Latin roots
- 3. Word parts andmeanings These units are often not words themselves, but are combined with other elements to form words. NEXT HOME BACK The quickest and easiest way to increase your vocabulary is to analyse the word in question and deduct the meaning of the word from the meaning of the different word parts
- 4. ROOT WORDS The mostbasic part of a word. It stands on its own as a word and has meaning. Example: PHOTO: Photograph Photosynthesis HOME LEARN MORE
- 5. ROOT WORDS ⮚ Themeaning of root words never changes even though other letter or word parts may change ⮚ Are used in combination with other word- building blocks like prefixes and suffixes HOME LEARN MORE
- 6. The most basicpart of a word. It stands on its own as a word and has meaning. Example: Photo: Meaning: a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material Photograph Photosynthesis HOME LEARN MORE When added to another word part: a combining form meaning “light”
- 7. Examples CARE HAPPY WALK Meaning look after feeling excitement carefully unhappy, happiness walked,walking BACK act of travelling NEXT Examples:
- 8. A letter orgroup of letters placed before a root word that changes the meaning PREFIXES: DIS- When the prefix ‘dis-’ is added to the word ‘appear’, it makes the word opposite in meaning (‘disappear’) LEARN MORE HOME Example:
- 9. A letter orgroup of letters placed before a root word that changes the meaning PREFIXES: EX- CO- DE- SEMI- LEARN MORE HOME More examples:
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- 11. SUFFIXES A group ofletters that are added to the end of a word and that changes its grammatical function Examples: -AL -NESS -LY -TION LEARN MORE HOME
- 12. Tell us whethera word is used as an action word (verb), a modifier (adjective or adverb), or name of a person, place or thing (noun). SUFFIXES Example: employee-employees Serve to distinguish between number and tense employ-employed NEXT BACK
- 13. Examples -AL -LY -TION Meaning action/result national, accidental lovely,quickly education, collaboration BACK adverb action/instance NEXT
- 14. ENGAGE Try to guessthe meaning of these prefixes, root words and suffixes on your own VOCABULARY BUILDING START
- 15. Ante- means before How doesthe prefix ante- change the meaning of the words: anteroom; antedate. Ante- means after Ante- means against
- 16. Anteroom: a small roomleading to a main one, typically serving as a waiting room. How Ante changes the meaning of the words indicating ‘before’: Antedate: To be of an earlier date than; precede in time NEXT
- 17. I could makea verb from ‘imagine’ The meaning of imagine can be changed by adding a suffix: I could make a noun from ‘imagine’ I could make an adverb from ‘imagine’ NEXT
- 18. a verb: imagined Changethe meaning of the following word by adding a suffix: imagine a noun: imagination an adverb: imaginatively NEXT
- 19. enjoy What is theroot for the following word: enjoyment joyment joy
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- 23. INCORRECT! TRY AGAIN GO BACKTO PREFIXES
- 24. INCORRECT! TRY AGAIN GO BACKTO SUFFIXES
- 25. INCORRECT! TRY AGAIN GO BACKTO ROOT WORDS
- 26. WELL DONE! Close thepresentation and continue with the content of the module on clickUP