UNIT-I - WORD FORMATION


Unit -I
Raman Effect

Vocabulary

Word Formation, Use of Prefixes and Suffixes
“While without grammar little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” –Wilkins.

 Vocabulary is a reserve of words. One has both active and passive vocabulary.

  Passive vocabulary

 Active vocabulary

Ø    You can understand but can’t yet use.

Ø    Limited to receptive language skills.

Ø    You can both understand and use.

Ø    One can use in both productive language skills.

 

 

  Importance of vocabulary

Vocabulary is

Ø     Required to understand what you listen or read.

Ø     Vital to communicate verbally.

Ø     Imperative to express your ideas exactly.

Ø     Indispensable to comment / compliment.

Ø     Essential to learn/acquire any language.

Look  at the following word with affiliation.

                                            Disconnection (word)

  Dis (prefix)            connect(root)            ion(suffix)                                        




What is a prefix?                                                                 


Prefix is letter or letters added at the beginning of a root word.

Prefix

 Meaning

Example

Pre

Before

Prefix, prenatal, prepone,postpone

 Un

Not

Unhappy, unwilling ,undo

Dis

Not

Dismount, dislike

Re

Again

  Rewrite, redo, reopen

Mis

wrongly

 Misguide, miscommunication

In/im

Not

Impossible, incorrect

Bi

Two

Bicycle, biannual, bigamy

Inter

Between

Interact, interchange

Super

Above

Superman , superpower

Sub

Under

Subordinate, submarine

anti

opposing

 Anticlockwise, antibiotic

 

Suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a root word. They are two types of suffixes.

Inflextional suffix

Derivational suffix

Ø   


     Changes the spelling of the word.

      


     No change in the part of speech.

 

Example:


Tell-tells

Ø   



    Changes the form of the word.




Ø    Part of speech is changed.


Example:


Person- personal

 

 

              suffix

meaning

example

Er

Comparative

Higher, greater

Er

Doer

Teacher, learner

Able

Possible

Adaptable

Ous

Full of

Vicious

Ness

State of being

Kindness

Ful

Full of

Useful

Ly

In the stated way /manner

Timidly

Ment

State of

Enjoyment

Hood

age/ place

Childhood/ neibhourhood

Logy/ics

study

Biology, phonetics

                                                                                 

 

 

Task time

Write as many examples as you can that end with the suffixes in the table, and mention the part of speech against your examples.

ism

able

ly

ial

ic

ive

ify

ity

ion

ise

graphy

 

Ence/ance

ment

ical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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