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    The document provides information on deriving meaning from words through structural analysis. It defines derivation and lists examples of common prefixes and suffixes, explaining their meanings. Greek and Latin roots are also presented with their meanings and examples of English derivatives. The summary explains how root words can be combined with affixes and other roots to form new words, and distinguishes between affixes and inflectional endings.

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    The document provides information on deriving meaning from words through structural analysis. It defines derivation and lists examples of common prefixes and suffixes, explaining their meanings. Greek and Latin roots are also presented with their meanings and examples of English derivatives. The summary explains how root words can be combined with affixes and other roots to form new words, and distinguishes between affixes and inflectional endings.

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    Republic of the Philippines

    PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY


    College of Teacher Education
    Puerto Princesa City

    Coaching and Online LET Refresher Course for LET Takers:


    Responding to the Challenges of the Normal

    Area: English
    Topic 7: Derivation: Structural Analysis

    Derivation - A technique of building vocabulary which involves structural analysis; breaking the word into
    its components (root words, affixes and inflectional endings) to know its meaning.

    Prefixes
    Prefixes Meaning Examples
    Ab away from absent, abdicate
    Bene good benefactor
    Circum around circumference
    Equi equal equidistant
    Extra outside extracurricular
    Intra within intramural
    Inter among intercontinental
    Intro into introduce
    Mal bad maltreat
    Multi many multimillionaire
    Mis wrong mistake
    Non not nonexistent
    Syn together with synagogue
    Pre before premarital, preview
    Poly many polygon
    Post after Postgraduate

    Suffixes
    Suffix Meaning Part of Speech Formed by Examples
    Suffix/ Function
    -ate to become, to produce, verb vaccinate, salivate
    to form
    -ment act of, state of noun enjoyment
    -ness noun firmness
    -ity noun propensity
    -sion, -tion noun diversion, reduction
    -ian one skilled in noun pediatrician
    -ly in the manner of adverb politely
    -able worthy of, capable of adjective adorable, endurable
    -ible sensible
    --ful characterized by, full of adjective disdainful, deceitful
    -ous tremendous, atrocious
    -ic, -ty, -y toxic, atrocity, handy
    -less without adjective senseless
    -ize to do, to perform verb apologize
    -ise chastise
    -yze paralyze
    -or a person who noun actor
    -er/ -ess preacher poetess
    -ee actress
    -ist honoree
    pharmacist
    -ian a person who noun custodian
    -ant assistant
    -ore commodore
    -yer lawyer

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    Useful Greek and Latin Roots
    Root Meaning English Derivative
    anima life, breath animal, animation
    aqua water aquarium, aqualung
    aristos the best aristocrat, aristocracy
    beatus blessed beatitude, beatification
    bios life biography, biology
    capt take, hold, seize capture, captive
    cede, cess yield, give away concede
    chron time chronicle
    cred believe credible
    culpare blame culpable
    cosm, kosmos world, universe, order comic, cosmos
    dem people democracy, endemic, pandemic
    dic, dict speak, say dictator, dictation
    domus house domestic, domicile
    duc, duct lead induct, conduct
    fac, fec do, make factory
    geo earth geography, geocentric
    graph write graphic, graphology
    mit, miss send remit, dismiss
    logos study of, science of biology, astrology
    pon, pos, posit place postpone, position
    ped foot pedestrian, biped
    petra rock petroleum, petrology
    phobia fear hydrophobia
    psyche mind, life, soul psyche, psychology
    pyr, pyros fire pyrotechnics
    scrip, script write scripture, inscribe
    spec look spectator, inspect
    stat stand, put in place stature, statue
    tacitus silence tacit, taciturn
    terra earth terrain, terrestrial
    umbra shade umbrella
    vers, vert turn versatile, convert
    vid, vis see video, visualize
    vita life vital, vitamin

    Root word – It is the simplest form of the word. It has no affixes or inflectional endings.

    A single root word can also be added to another root word to form a new word.
    Examples:
     rain + bow = rainbow
     egg + plant = eggplant
     black + board = blackboard

    root by itself – place


    root word + inflectional ending – placed
    root word + prefix – replace
    root word + suffix – placement
    root word + prefix + suffix – replacement
    root word + root word - placeholder

    Affixes and Inflectional Endings


     They are word parts added to the root word to form a new word. Inflectional endings are -s, -ed, -
    ing and examples of affixes are -ful, -ness, -im etc.
     An affix is called a prefix if it is placed at the beginning of the word and suffix if it is at the end.

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