By Vocabulary, Suffixes

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 from the context. Thus, we have to define which word...

Su's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I...

Regarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't many) requires knowing only two other words in...

Hi folks. I was teaching a lesson on vocabulary and decided to teach prefixes, suffixes and roots (eg Latin and Greek). I am not sure how you differentiate between, for example, a prefix and a root. It seems that "hydro" is a root but "geo" is not. "Bio" maybe a root or a prefix?????? Is it...