Prefixes and Root Words

This lesson teaches what prefixes are and how they function in word formation. Students will learn to identify basic root words and use prefixes to create antonyms. The concept of morphemes as the smallest units of sound will also be explained.

• 20:48 “moment, what we are running through a mind is what is bound morphem? What is a bound morphem? Quickly, I will just explain that and then it gets it. What is a bound morphem? You see, we have it on the board on the screen...”
• 21:36 “Examples, okay, we have unproductive. A bound morphem is a morphem that can appear only as a part of a lecture expression. That means a bound morphem is a morphem that means an affix that cannot stand on its own, just li...”
• 22:22 “them. We have proclaimed. So bound morphemes are affixes. And then I said they are inflections or attachments that cannot stand on their own. So insensible, proclaim, disrespect, and resurface. Next is the opposite of a...”