ENGLISH 1

STUDY & THINKING SKILLS

1. Blending – forming new words through the fusion or merging of 2 independent words.

-the words merged need to drop some of their letters.Ex: breakfast and lunch = brunch kim and gerald = kimerald

cena and nation = cenation

Types of Word Formation

-combining 2 words which are usually independent from each other, noun and noun, or noun and its description.-you don’t drop a single letter, rather combine the two.

2. Compounding

Phases:separate: candy bar, marriage license, post office

Hyphenated: father-in-law, ad-lib, hanky-panky, in-depth

One word: notebook, afternoon, underground

- Attaching a prefix or a suffix to a root.

Ex: ad/a cur (care for) -ate = accurate ad voc (call) -ate = advocate

3. Derivation

is a list of words that you will encounter in books. Knowing these words will help you in your reading of the college textbooks.

AWL-Academic Word List

Is pairing up of words by their relationships.

This does not only help in remembering words, but also aids in acquiring higher level thinking skills as you practice going deeper into the words.

Antonyms Ex: beautiful – ugly reject: accept, aggregate: part, deny: confirm

Word Analogy

Ex: aid:help, enormous:gigantic, decline:sink, infer:conclude

Word Syntax/Grammar relationEx: Infer:inference, beauty:beautiful, alumnus:alumni

Synonyms

Degree to IntensityEx: cool:freezing, hot:boiling, tall:giantFreezing-highest degree of coolnessBoiling-highest degree of hotnessGiant- very very tall

Part to whole or whole to partEx: sleeves:shirt, brick:wall, chapter:book Item to category or category to item

Ex:spoon:utensil, shirt:clothes, tennis:sports SoundsEx:reign:rain, ewe:you, right:write

Pairs up different words that have similar pronunciation called HOMOPHONE.

Examples: air-heir, alter-altar, aloud- allowedbeat-beet, cite-site, sight, clause-claws

SOUNDS ANALOGY