🎯Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this chapter, you should be able to
Identify words in sentences
Identify types of English words (simple, compound, complex, & compound-complex)
Break down compound, complex, and compound-complex words into morphemes (free vs. bound, derivational vs. inflectional)
4. Improve word choices in writing and speech according to rhetorical context (i.e., audience, purpose, and formality)
🔑Key Concepts:
Words
simple
compound
complex
compound-complex words
Morphemes
free vs. bound morphemes
inflectional vs. derivational morphemes (prefix, suffix, infix)
root, base, stem
Ways in word formation
compounding
affixation
other word- formation methods (e.g., blending, clipping, coinage, borrowing, acronym, etc.)