grammar PERIODICAL

compound

a word made by joining 2 / more words

close compound word

type of compound word that is written as one word

open compound word

type of compound word that is written as seperate words

hyphenated compound words

type of compound word that is written w/ a hyphen

clipping

a process where a new word is created by shortening a longer word

back clipping

an end of a word is cut off

front clipping

the beginning of a word is cut off

compoung clipping

both sides of a word is shortened

blending

combining parts of 2 words to form a new word

acronymy

process of forming words from initial components of a phrase

acronym

a word formed as abbreviaton from the intiail components of a word/phrase

national aeronautics and space administration

nasa meaning

radio detection ang ranging

radar meaning

subscriber identity module

sim menaing

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

aids meaning

parallelism

using the same pattern of words to show that 2 or more words are of equal importance

correlative conjunction

are defined as words that are used to describe 2 or more things that are related to each other

verbal

a word formed from verbs but used as nouns, adjectives or adverbs

gerund

verb + ing

infinitives

to + verb

participle

a verb used as an adjective, used as verb + ing or verb + ed

people

what does folk mean

etymology

study of the origin of words

folk etymology

happens when a word is altered because people try to make it sound like a word they already know

checkmate

meaning of shah mat