As you can see, word formation is important as it allows language learners to increase their knowledge of word classes and helps them to increase their vocabulary base.
Today's mini-game is " word formation, " where you say names of countries, characters from the Four Great Classical Novels, and so on while doing the squat.
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Well, Xena, today I'm super excited because we're going to be talking about a topic that I personally love discussing with my students, which is word formation.
Such compounds are also called synthetic compounds, because in addition to compounding, the process of word formation also involves derivation (from verb to noun, e.g. from drive to driver).
They obey the same word formation rule and share the same semantic information: each is attached to an adjective as a prefix, and each has the meaning of " negative."
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One thing also I find fascinating about word formation is the pronunciation, especially of the suffixes, I think, because if you learn the pronunciation of the individual suffixes, that also helps you
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So, learning more about word formation, about prefixes and suffixes, the different words you can form out of a single word, learning the pronunciation of these, especially the suffixes, can help you improve your pronunciation.