To complete this week's word parts assignment,
the first thing you need to do is make sure that you have downloaded the appendix 5
handout which is in the week 7 lecture. This is a handout with word parts and
their meanings. It'll be really useful for this assignment and for any other time
you need to look up any common word forms or word parts, roots, prefixes, and
suffixes, so you go back to the course modules and for week 7 click on 'Word
Parts Assignment' then you're going to click on the link and you should come up
to this page, this shared Google Doc. It's shared with the whole class, so again you
need to make sure that you only do one problem in this assignment. So, what we're
going to do here is we have a bunch of words that are made up of these prefixes,
roots, and suffixes. So, you're going to use the appendix handout, and you're
going to basically come up with your own definition for each word based on the
meaning of the prefix, root, and suffix. So, I'm going to do the first word for
you as an example. So, the first word is 'linguist', and we can check for a prefix
first of all. We'll go to Appendix V
ahh, see if there's a prefix that because with the 'L' and it doesn't look like there
is one so maybe
it's a root that starts this word, so we can look under 'L' and we have 'Ling' which
means language, and we have some examples here.
'Linguistics', that sounds close to the word that we're looking for, but we have
'linguist' so I'm going to put a 'X' here since there's no prefix and 'Ling' is the root
and the meaning is language so I'm going to put 'language' here , language as
a definition here in this column under roots now we'll look for suffixes
because it seems like there's like a suffix added to this root. You can
scroll down prefixes and we have suffixes. Let's check on noun suffixes
first. We have '-ian', '-er', '-or' and '-ist', so we have '-ist', 'linguist' and the
meaning is 'person who'. Some examples here, we have a 'mathematician' 'teacher' 'sailor'
and 'artist', '-ist', so it means 'person who'. We'll go back to the word parts assignment and
we put in '-ist'. Notice how I put a small dash right before '-ist'. That
indicates that this word part goes at the end. It's a suffix, and you can also put
in the meaning which means 'person who', and we can try to kind of guess what the
definition this word 'linguist' is by putting together these two word parts. So,
maybe a 'linguist' has something to do with language and a person so maybe we can get
a
person who studies languages or language. That's all you have to do. Try to come up
with your own definition and then you'll want to refer to your dictionary to
double check your answer. You can use the Longman Dictionary that we have under
our Course Resources, and then the last thing you do of course is type in your
name so that I can give you credit for this week's assignment.