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    PostSubject: Word Building   Word Building I_icon_minitimeTue May 20, 2008 4:38 am

    English is a very flexible language and you can build on your vocabulary to make new words.
    One way of doing this is to add prefixes (such as dis, pre or co) before the word.

    Here's a list of common prefixes with their meanings and some examples.

    anti (= against)
    antibodies, anti-social

    auto (self)
    autonomous, autobiography, automobile

    bi (= two)
    bicycle

    co (= with)
    cooperate, coordinate

    contra (= against)
    contradict, contravene

    de (= remove)
    deregulate, deselect

    dis (= not)
    disappear

    il (= not)
    illegal

    im (= not)
    immaterial, immature

    inter (= between)
    international

    mis (= badly/wrongly)
    misinform, misbehave, misunderstand

    multi (= many)
    multinational

    non (= opposite)
    non-profit

    out (= more than)
    outperform, outdone

    over (= too much)
    oversleep, overwork

    post (= after)
    postpone, postnatal

    pre (= before)
    predict

    re (= again)
    rewrite, relive

    sub (= under)
    submarine

    super (= higher/improved)
    supermarket

    trans (= across)
    transatlantic

    uni (= one)
    uniform

    under (= not enough)
    underpaid, underfed


    Word Endings

    You can also make new words from the words you already know by using different endings. For example, "The person who employs me has a fast car". You can make this sentence simpler, by replacing "the person who employs me" with "my employer". This gives you "My employer has a fast car."

    In English you can make nouns from verbs (to employ gives employer and employee). You can also make verbs from nouns or adjectives: government gives to govern, modern gives to modernise and so on. Learning what endings you can put on words means you can expand your vocabulary and say what you mean more easily.

    Here are some common word endings:


    Nouns

    -er /- or: a person who does something
    adviser / advisor, teacher, learner

    -ian:
    optician, mathematician

    -ment: result of action
    improvement, advancement

    -ism: name of system or belief
    realism, optimism

    -ist: the person who believes in the system
    realist, optimist

    -ion:
    confusion, apparition

    -ness:
    happiness

    -ship:
    leadership

    -ence / ance:
    permanence, appearance

    -acy:
    lunacy

    -age:
    marriage

    -ity:
    annuity

    -y:
    photography

    -cy:
    fluency


    Verbs

    -ify:
    falsify, modify

    -ise:
    modernise


    Adjectives

    -ic:
    idiotic, periodic

    -ful:
    awful, wonderful

    -able / ible:
    comfortable, terrible

    -proof / resistant:
    waterproof, childproof, fireproof

    -free:
    alcohol free beer, nuclear free zone

    -less: without
    hopeless, childless


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    PostSubject: Re: Word Building   Word Building I_icon_minitimeTue May 20, 2008 9:16 pm

    Great TS
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    PostSubject: Re: Word Building   Word Building I_icon_minitimeWed May 21, 2008 2:42 am

    THANKS!!! Very Happy Wink
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