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BUILDING BLOCKSBook 1
Word Building
Get Higher Scores on Exams!
Improve your English!
Learn English Easier!
Learn English Faster! BY Thomas A. Dyer
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INTRODUCTION
Do you get frustrated because you dont know a word?
Do you hate stopping every few words to look in a dictionary?
Do you want to get higher marks on your CET-4/CET-6, IELTS, TOFEL
English tests?
Do you just want to improve you English.
Vocabulary is the Key!
Did you know that Scientists, Doctors, and lawyers in America had tolearn the Latin and Greek languages?
That is because much English comes from these languages and theseare the bricks and mortar that built the language allows it to change
quickly as science and technology move forward. Culture changescause changes in the language also. New words created, old words
discarded.
So, how can you as an English learner keep up?
TWO WORDS!
WORD BUILDING
The secret of learning new words and the meaning of words youvenever seen before.
WORD BUILDING is The forgotten method of learning English.
In American schools, teachers taught Word Building. In the early
1960s the practice of intensive word learning stopped in favor of thecurrent whole word method used today. Most teachers today do noteven know that it existed. This is one reason why American students
English scores began to decline in the early 1960s.
In the year 2000, many teachers frustrated at the lack of English
proficiency began to revive the Word Building methods.
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Word Building
Why do we want to build words?
We could just memorize words.
However, the English language has over 2 million words.
So, would take a long time
Nevertheless, what if we could look a word and the word would tell uswhat it means.
Would that be a valuable skill?
Would you like this skill?
Would you get higher scores on your tests?
That is the reason for this book
Inside this book are just the facts, the INFORMATION you need to lookat a word and know what means.
An English word can have 3 parts.
Root
Prefix
Suffix
Prefixes and Suffixes are called affixes (parts attached to words)
Chinese words modify their character and use an initial followed by a
final.
In English however we add more characters to change the meaning of
the word.
However, it does follow a system
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All words have a root that is the base meaning of the wordIt can also have a prefix, which is added to the front of the wordIt could also have a suffix, which is added to the end of the word
Or it could have all three and it could have more than one prefix and
more than one suffix. Affixes can be used to build over 2,000,000words.
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK.
IT is not a dictionary.
(You should have one when using this book.)
It is in 3 parts.
Part 1 is Roots.
Part 2 is Prefixes
Part 3 is Suffixes
When looking at a new/unknown word you should look at its parts.
Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes.
Write down under the word the meanings you find.
Try to discovery the meaning by doing this first. Then check yourselfagainst the dictionary.
After a short time, you will get confidence and not need the dictionaryany more.
This is a useful skill to have when taking tests (CET-4/CET-6) or whenreading books.
This is Book 1 of a series of 4 small books. Each book is designed to
show a building block of English.
Book 2 Perfect Pronunciation
Book 3 Context is the KEYBook 4 Can you Remember it?
Together prefixes/suffixes are called Affixes
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PART 1 The Roots
Roots are the primary meaning of a word.
They may stand-alone.
They also may have attached a combination of prefixes and suffixes to
modify the base meaning of the word.
Think of a word as made up of bricks just like a house.
Another example would be a train with the engine, cars, and caboose crepresenting the prefix, root, and, suffix.
The layout of this book is for quick reference:
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ROOT
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ROOT
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ROOT
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ROOT
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ROOT
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ROOT
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ROOT
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VICIS
ROOT
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Part 2 The Prefixes
The prefix goes to the left of the root and it changes the base meaning
of the word.
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Part 3 The Suffix
The Suffix goes to the right of the root and it modifies the meaning of
the word.
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technician
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ENGLISH IS LIKE A TRAIN
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