Synthetic English

Mastering some knowledge of word formation can greatly increase your vocabulary. There are mainly three situations in English word formation:

1. Derivative method, that is, adding a prefix or suffix to a root word to form another new word, which is closely related to the meaning of the root word. contact. Such words are called derived words. For example, the commonly used prefixes in-, im-, un-, dis-, etc. express negative meaning; the suffixes -er, -or, -ist, etc. express people; the suffixes -y, -ly, -ful, etc. express adjectives; the suffix -ness Indicates the noun part, etc. (Generally, the prefix changes the meaning of the word, and the suffix changes the part of speech).

Another example is like-unlike, teach-teacher, friend-friendly, sad-sadness. Add the suffixes of ed and ing after the verb, which can be recorded like this: making people ing, feeling ed.

2. Synthesis method, that is, combining two or several independent words together to form a new word. Words formed by this method are called compound words or compound words. For example: black + board = blackboard; class + room = classroom; foot + ball = football.

3. Conversion method, that is, converting one part of speech into another part of speech without changing the spelling form. Mainly convert nouns into verbs, verbs into nouns, adjectives into verbs or nouns, etc. Such as: water (n. water) water (v. watering); lift (v. lift) lift (n. elevator); last (adj. past) last (v. continuous); tear (n. tears) tear (v. shed tears); joke (n. joke) joke (v. tell a joke).

Word splitting method:

Word splitting method refers to the method of dividing a word into several words to help memory. For example, believe (believe), there is also a lie (lie) hidden in the middle; family, father and mother I love

you (father and mother I love you); alien (alien), is a( a)-lie (lie)-n (na); forward (forward), for (for)-war (war)-d (of), so "go forward bravely for the victory of the war."