Welcome to the 104.01 Class Blog for the summer of 2010. This will be the first of many blog postings from myself, as well as from you and your classmates. See this as a creative space in which to write more freely in English. Before the summer intensive class is done, you will have posted pictures, described recent experiences, offered advice to your classmates, shared various tidbits of your knowledge with one another, etc... all via this blog. So enjoy! I will tell you when to check back to this blog for your first blog assignment; however, you need not wait for me to post ideas or advice that you think would be of help or of interest to your classmates. I look forward to exploring this online space with you this summer.
Alexandra
Hi, It's Klaus. I think word analysis is very useful to me. So I have a question about this. Would you tell me about prefixes? Just as you are thought.
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I agree that word analysis is important. "Im" does mean "not." It tends to be used with words that begin with "p" or "m." For example, "impolite," "immoral," or "impatient." Thus, these words mean respectively: "not polite," "not moral" and "not patient". However, you can have "im" as a prefix when, at times, it doesn't mean "not." For example, "immerse," which means "to plunge, dip or drop into as if into a liquid." In this word, the prefix is "false" or not acting as an obvious prefix. As you learn more vocabulary, you learn when "im" is meaning "not" and when it isn't. Thanks for asking about this. I plan to present in class a list of common prefixes, suffixes and roots. See you Monday! --Alexandra
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