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¿Qué se añade al principio de una palabra para cambiar su significado?
¿Cuál es el tipo de palabra que describe un nombre o pronombre?
¿Qué se utiliza para descubrir el significado de una palabra desconocida en un texto?
¿Qué se forma cuando se combinan dos palabras para crear una nueva palabra?
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¿Qué tipo de palabras son aprendidas en un campo específico o tema?
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¿Qué se utiliza para aprender palabras con significados similares?
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What type of noun refers to a general category of people, places, or things?
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What is the function of a linking verb?
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What type of adjective describes a quantity?
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What type of adverb describes how something is done?
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What is the main function of an adjective?
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What type of clause can stand alone as a complete sentence?
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What is the term for words that are spelled the same but have different meanings?
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What is added to the end of a word to change its meaning?
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What is the function of a noun phrase in a sentence?
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What is the term for a fixed expression with a specific meaning?
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What is the result of combining a prefix with a root word?
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Study Notes
Vocabulary
Word Formation
- Prefixes: added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning (e.g., un-, re-, de-)
- Suffixes: added to the end of a word to change its meaning (e.g., -able, -ment, -ly)
- Compounding: combining two words to create a new word (e.g., bookshelf, toothbrush)
- Blending: combining parts of two words to create a new word (e.g., smog, brunch)
Word Types
- Nouns: people, places, things, and ideas (e.g., dog, city, happiness)
- Verbs: actions or states of being (e.g., run, eat, be)
- Adjectives: describe nouns or pronouns (e.g., big, happy, blue)
- Adverbs: describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (e.g., quickly, very, well)
- Pronouns: replace nouns in a sentence (e.g., he, she, it, they)
- Prepositions: show relationships between words (e.g., in, on, at, with)
- Conjunctions: connect words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, or, so)
- Interjections: express emotion or feeling (e.g., oh, wow, ouch)
Vocabulary Strategies
- Context clues: use surrounding words to figure out the meaning of an unknown word
- Root words: learn the root of a word to understand its meaning and related words
- Word families: learn words with similar prefixes, suffixes, or roots
- Synonyms: learn words with similar meanings
- Antonyms: learn words with opposite meanings
Word Lists
- Common words: learn high-frequency words that are commonly used in English (e.g., the, and, a, is)
- Academic words: learn words commonly used in academic subjects (e.g., analyze, hypothesis, phenomenon)
- Domain-specific words: learn words related to specific fields or subjects (e.g., medicine, law, technology)
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Evalúa tus conocimientos sobre la formación de palabras en inglés, incluyendo prefijos, sufijos, compounding y blending. También cubre tipos de palabras, estrategias para aprender vocabulario y listas de palabras comunes y específicas.
