UNIT 3: Word Formation

Acquire/Revise your knowledge of how some words can be formed from others and how a words form affects its meaning and shows its part of speech and key terms used to describe these topics. Complete a TKT:KAL exam style question to practice this knowledge

It is the smallest unit that has meaning in a language!

How many morphemes are there in the words below? Which are free? Which are bound?
1. 2. 3. 4. Unattractive. Midday Movement Teachers

How do the morphemes in exercise one change the words attract, day, move and teach?

What do we call morphemes added to the beginning of words?

Prefixes

What do we call morphemes added to the ends of words?

Suffixes Affixes

What are they both examples of? What do we call the process of adding them?

Affixation

Verb employ

Noun

Adjective

Negative prefix +adjective

possible depend economy record

impossible

Verb employ

Noun employee employment employer

possibility

Adjective employed employable

Possible dependent dependable economic(al) recordable recorded record

Negative prefix +adjective unemployed unemployable

impossible independent uneconomic(al) non-recordable unrecorded

depend

dependant economy economics

Record (2nd)

record (1st)

Look at the words below. How has the spelling changed from the base word in brackets and why?
1. (happy) Happiness 2. (advise) advisable 3. (complete) Completely

What is the Root Word or Base Word of a Word Family?

Write the word families for the words below. Use a dictionary if necessary.
1. Believe 2. Create

Verb

Noun

Adjective

Negative prefix +adjective Unbelievable Uncreative

Believe Create

Believer Belief Creation Creator

Believable Creative

Look at 1-4 in the table below. How many words are in each?
Number of Words 1. Ice-cream 2. Nice-Looking 3. Dry-Clean 4. Homework

Compound Pattern noun+ noun

Noun+ adjective Verb + Particle Adjective + Verb Adjective/adverb + present/past participle Preposition + preposition

Examples

What is the full form of the words below?

1. 2. 3. 4. Wasnt DVD Advert RAM

contraction? Acronym? Initialism?

An An

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