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Morphology & Etymology If these words mean nothing to you, then you are not alone. They will be clear by the end of this presentation.
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Morphology = looking at the shapes that make up words
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What word can you make? AUTO IC AL AL
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AUTO+BIO+GRAPH+IC+AL If you don’t know already what the word AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL means… AUTO IC AL You can start to figure it out by identifying the word parts (“shapes”). That’s MORPHOLOGY.
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IF MORPHOLOGY means looking at (studying) the shapes that make up words, THEN what do you think ETYMOLOGY might mean? HINT: ETYM means word origin
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Etymology = looking at (studying)the origin of words
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTO IC AL AUTO = SELF BIO = LIFE GRAPH = WRITING IC = OF AL = RELATING TO
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF OF relating to AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL = RELATING TO WRITING THE LIFE OF THE SELF OR, RELATING TO THE WRITER’S OWN LIFE
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Morphology = looking at the “shape” of words Etymology = looking at the origin of words
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This year, you will become a MORPHOLOGIST and an ETYMOLOGIST, studying the shapes and origins of words… by mastering over 30 word “roots” (or “origins”) How many do you know? AMI/AMO AUD BELLI BENE CAPIT CARD CARN CHRON CORD CORP DICT GEN GRAD GRAPH GRESS LITERA LOQU LYS/LYZ MAL MAN MEM MORI PATH PED PHON PSYCH SCRIP SENS SOLU SON SPECT TORT VERS VIS VIV
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