As an English learner, you must be facing the necessity to learn new
vocabulary. How do you do it? Most likely, simply by memorizing, maybe you took a
step further and found out how to use associations to facilitate the process;
you also might be using one of the numerous vocabulary apps. However, not
everybody is aware of a method that can help you increase the number of words
you know without any extra efforts, and the way to do it is through the usage
of suffixes and prefixes.
In very simple terms, a suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of the word, while a prefix is a letter or a group of letters at the beginning of the word. Their purpose is to make a new word; for example, in the word changing, the final -ing is a suffixe which is added to the word change.
In one of the previous articles I already talked about the typical suffixes of different parts of speech, and here I'd like to tell you how you can use this information to improve your vocabulary.
In very simple terms, a suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of the word, while a prefix is a letter or a group of letters at the beginning of the word. Their purpose is to make a new word; for example, in the word changing, the final -ing is a suffixe which is added to the word change.
In one of the previous articles I already talked about the typical suffixes of different parts of speech, and here I'd like to tell you how you can use this information to improve your vocabulary.
1. Changing part of speech by changing suffix.Basically, if you know certain correspondences between word suffixes, a great power is in your hands. Let's take a look at the table below.
