Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Understand the different properties of a word

Group the family together

When looking up a word, you should also grab the different properties together. At the beginning, you might have troubles to memorize all of them but you will figure some basic etymology rules to help you memorize the family. At the end, you will automatically know all the properties of a word by guessing.For example, any word ended with 'ful ' is very likely to be an adjective. (beautiful, wonderful).

Also see etymology

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