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Question 1

Degrees of Comparison ​

Answer 1

The Positive Degree. ​

This offers no comparison. It just tells us about the existence of a quality.
For example =
slow, beautiful, happy​​

Question 2

The Comparative Degree

Answer 2

This compares two things to show which has the lesser or greater degree of the quality. For example:​

slower, more beautiful, happier​

Question 3

The Superlative

Answer 3

This compares more than two things to show which has the least or greatest degree of the quality. For example:​

slowest, most beautiful, happiest ​

Question 4

prefix

Answer 4

PREFIX: A prefix is a group of letters placed before the root of a word.​

For example, the word “unhappy” consists of the prefix “un-” [which means “not”] combined with the root (or stem) word “happy”; the word “unhappy” means “not happy.”

Question 5

suffix

Answer 5

SUFFIX: a letter or group of letters, for example ‘-ly’ or ‘-ness,’ which is added to the end of a word in order to form a different word, often of a different word class. ​

For example, the suffix ‘-ly’ is added to ‘quick’ to form ‘quickly’.​

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Question 6

synonym

Answer 6

Synonym= a word having the same or nearly the same meaning.

Question 7

antonym

Answer 7

Antonym= a word having a different meaning/ the opposite meaning.

Question 8

What do all of these words have in common? How are they the same

Answer 8

Homophone​

Homonym​

Homograph​

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Each begins with the root word homo.​

Homo means same.​

All of these words have to do with sameness. ​

Question 9

Homophone​

Answer 9

Phone= sound​

Homo= same​

So what does homophone mean? ​

Homophone= words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings/definitions. ​

Example: to/two/too

Question 10

homonym

Answer 10

Nym= name​

Homo= same​

What does homonym mean?​

They are words that are spelt the same and have the same pronunciation. They have different meanings.​

Example: bat (animal) and bat (sporting equipment); ball.​

What are 2 possible meanings of the word ball?

Question 11

homographs

Answer 11

Graph= writing​

Homographs are words that are spelt the same but are pronounced differently.​

E.g. minute (time) and minute (small).​

What are two possible meanings and pronunciation of the word “close”?

Question 12

Abbreviation station

Answer 12

Shortening a SINGLE word.​

It is not pronounced as a new word.​

Only use a full stop if the abbreviated word ends on a letter that the OG word does not.​

Mister= Mr (no full stop)​

Page= p. (full stop used because page ends in an ‘e’, not a ‘p’.​

Question 13

INITIALISMS

Answer 13

Shortening of MULTIPLE words.​

The first letter (INITIAL) of each word is used.​

You pronounce each letter individually.​

CIA= Central Intelligence Agency​

RIP=?​

Question 14

ACRONYMS ​

Answer 14

Shortening of MULTIPLE words.​

The new word is pronounced as a brand new word.​
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NASA= The National Aeronautics and Space Administration​

Question 15

TRUNCATION

Answer 15

Shortening a SINGLE word.​

Only one part of the word is kept and the other part if omitted.​

Phone = telephone.​

Fridge= refrigerator ​

Question 16

active

Answer 16

Regular voice ​

The subject of the sentence does the action

Subject​

Verb ​

Object ​

Question 17

passive

Answer 17

The object becomes the subject and action is done to it

object ; verb ; subject

Question 18

literal

Answer 18

Literal language: is used to mean exactly what is written.

Question 19

figurative

Answer 19

Figurative language: is used to mean something other than what is written, something symbolic, suggested, or implied.