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The worksheets in this section deal with certain areas of vocabulary in which words are associated together in categories for various reasons.
Information for teachers
This section deals with a large number of different areas of vocabulary. Each area of vocabulary shares a particular theme. The four themes in this section are given below. The first section Affixation focuses on the differences in use and meaning between words derived from the same root but with different suffixes. The second section, Back to front prepositions, deals with compound words and phrases formed with a preposition, in which the preposition may precede or follow a noun or a verb, eg: take over - overtake. In every case each compound has a different meaning. The main problem for students is understanding the meaning of the compounds. There are a sizeable number of these formations and more will be added. The Bodywords section deals with compounds or phrases formed with one or two parts of the body as the elements in the phrases. The sample section has compound words, but each exercise in this section deals with phrases with two body words. The section, Similar words, deals with groups of words which have similar meanings or pronunciation and which are often confused by students, eg: enough, rather, quite, or words which are based on the same roots and which are often confused even though they may have different meanings, eg: sensitive, sensible, sentient. More will be added in time.
More sections will be added to the password protected section based on other themes, such as Prefixes, Suffixes, New formations, Noun hierarchies and Pronoun phrases.
Click on the links below to look at the free sample sheets.
| Affixation 1 | admit, consult, deliver, enter, refer, succeed |
| Affixation 2 | alternate, destination, object, serial, variable |
| Affixation notes | Information on affixation |
| Suffixes 1 | affection/affectation, cosmetic/cosmic |
Also available under subscription: Suffixes 2, Suffixes 3, Suffixes 4
| Back to front prepositions 1 | off, up, over, on |
| Back to front prepositions 2 | down, off, out, in, back |
Also available under subscription: Back to front propositions 3 (out), Back to front propositions 4 (over),Back to front propositions 5 (up, under, out)
| Body doubles 1 | eye to eye, hand to hand, toe to toe |
Also available under subscription: Body doubles 2
| Similar Words 1 | journey, travel, trip, voyage, bother, care, disturb, mind, molest |
| Similar Words 2 | expect, hope, wait, variable, variation, variance, variety, experience, experiment |
| Similar words 3 | enough, quite, rather |
| Similar words 4 | at the end, finally, firstly, etc |
| Similar words 5 | sense, sensible, sensitive, etc |
| Similar words 6 | bear, maintain, stand, support |
| Similar words 7 | affect, affection, effect, effective |
Also available under subscription: Similar words 8 (bank, coast, shore), Similar words 9 (ascent/assent), Similar words 10 (berth/birth), Similar words 11 (coarse/course), Similar words 12 (pedal/peddle), Similar words 13 (accept/except), Similar words 14 (affect/effect)
| Answers | Answers to all the exercises in this section |
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