I think before teaching vocabulary, we need to choose active and passive vocabulary. For passive words, we only realize and don't spend a lot of time to explain them. Students will research themselves by looking up in the dictionary or guessing

Yes. The Stem or Root of a word is the foundation from which the word comes from. For example: The Stem of Lovely is Love Of Leafy it is leaf Of reorganisation it is organise Of unreasonable it is reason The re, un, ly, tion, and

Hi I am confused about the use of to or into --could you please help me out? I give my students questions like this: 1- By using suitable suffixes, change the following nouns to (into?) adjectives. Child, Fool, Danger, etc Change

Google should be able to help you with suffixes. There are many! Here's a good list: http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/English-suffixes-1.html There are several pages of suffixes at that site. CJ

Dear Califjim, I'm an English teacher in Peru and I was just trying to find some information regarding Suffixes, and to be honest with you have shed some light upon that issue. Thanks a lot CarlX

wildest what is this a base,prefixes or suffixes

Miles -- I don't mean to be too discouraging, but "performaly" is not a word. I'm not even sure what an adjective form of a verb would be, unless you mean somehing like "a performing bear," in which case you would use the gerund. Not all parts of

I Googled list of prefixes and suffixes and found several sites. Here's one: http://www.southampton.liu.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm

Thank's CB. That was very supportive but you did'nt anser to my question. what about prefixes and suffixes... Nobady can help...?

Hi! I'd like to ask anybody. How can I easely learn prefixes an suffixes. Is there a dictionary what can easely help me? For instance, I can have the verb perform. Noun is performance, person is performer, adjective is performaly, and negative