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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
On a recent program, we explained that knowing just a few root words in English can help you understand the meaning of hundreds more words.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
To refresh your memory, a root word is the simplest form of a word.
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For example, two forms of the root for the word “see” are vis- and vid- such as in the words "television" and "video."
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Today, we will tell you about prefixes and suffixes groups of letters that appear at the beginnings and endings of words.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Learning the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes can help you understand unknown English words you come across.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
It can also help you become better at spelling words.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Prefixes Let's start with prefixes. A prefix is a letter or a group of letters that we add to the beginning of a word.
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Prefixes change the meanings of words. For example, the prefix un- or u-n) can mean "not," "remove," or "opposite."
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Adding un- to the word "happy" gives you the word "unhappy," which means not happy.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Re- means "again" or "back," such as in the words "rethink" "redo" and "repay."
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
prefixes: Suffixes
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Now, let's turn to suffixes. A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Suffixes are commonly used to show the part of speech of a word.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
For example, adding "ion" to the verb "act" gives us "action," the noun form of the word.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Suffixes also tell us the verb tense of words or whether the words are plural or singular.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
suffixes: There are
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
additional suffix rules, but they deal with spelling and can be learned with time and practice
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
A thing to keep in mind about both prefixes and suffixes is that some are only used with some words.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
For example, we add the suffix -ful to some nouns to mean "full of," such as in the words "beautiful" or "helpful."
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
But, we cannot add -ful to just any noun. You could not, for example, say "loveful" to mean full of love.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
So, what are some ways that you can practice common prefixes and suffixes? One way is to use online flashcards from websites like Quizlet
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You can choose sets of cards that are already made or create and use your own sets. Or, you can make your own flashcards with pieces of paper.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Once you've spent time practicing, take a news story or page in a book and look for words that have the prefixes and suffixes you learned.
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Learn Prefixes, Suffixes to Expand Your Vocabulary
Then, use what you know about the meaning of the root words to guess the meanings of those words.
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