VOCABULARY BUILDING AND WORD FORMATION
Vocabulary has to do with all the words a
person knows or uses while speaking. To improve on your vocabulary, you must
read wide, read novels, articles, newspapers. And make sure you use dictionary
to find out the meaning of new words.
You can form new words from nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. This is to show that words can be formed from different parts of speech. Study the following table carefully.
Noun Adjective Verb Adverb
Freedom Free Free Freely
Height High Heighten. Highly
Joy joyful enjoy
joyfully
Smoke smoky smoke
Health healthy
heal.
Happiness happy happily
Softness soft soften softly
Depth deep deepen. Deeply
Sadness sad sadden. sadly
Kindness kind kindly
Height High Heighten. Highly
Width wide widen
Cleanliness clean clean
Glory Glorious
glorify. I Gloriously
Office official officiate officially
Slave slavish enslave slavishly
Cold cold . Coldly
Poverty poor impoverish poorly
Beauty beautiful beautify
beautifully
Truth true . Truly
Take note that many English words have the
noun form, the adjectival form, verb form and adverbial form. One word may have
two or three forms. Some may have up to four forms of the parts of speech.
Knowing how to use them is very important.
Example:
The hostages have been set free.
The hostages have received their freedom.
The hostages freely left the hideout.
Free the hostages.
The children are healthy now.
The children have regained their health.
The children healed well.
Happiness bubbled in my heart.
I am happy.
I happily left the class.
The clearness of the situation is important.
The situation is clear to us now.
They explained the situation clearly.
We asked them to clarify the situation.
Now, do you notice how each of the word
that represents a part of speech is used.
Test
Make sentences using these words: strong,
strongly, strength, calm, calmness, calmly, power, powerful, powerfully, beg,
beggar, know, knowledge.
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