The Analytical Machine
Look at this paragraph from the video about the Analytical Machine. Some words are in bold.
Are those words nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs?
That machine was built by this guy, Charles Babbage. Now, I have a great affinity for Charles Babbage because his hair is always completely unkempt like this in every single picture. He was a very wealthy man, and a sort of, part of the aristocracy of Britain, and on a Saturday night in Marylebone, were you part of the intelligentsia of that period, you would have been invited round to his house for a soiree — and he invited everybody: kings, the Duke of Wellington, many, many famous people — and he would have shown you one of his mechanical machines.
Charles Babbage: Word Formation
Drag the word type to the example word.
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How did you know what form the words were? What clues were there in the spelling?
Think about the spelling and decide what kind of words these could be: noun, verb, adjective or adverb?
- facebookish
- illiterati
- truthiness
- twitterati
- guyliner
- unlightening
- errorist
- destinesia
- textspectation
- nonversation
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Now let’s practice word formation with some real words.
Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap. Write the new word.
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Invent a New Word!
With a partner, make a new word.
The rules are:
- the word must not exist at the moment
- must include a suffix
- may include a prefix
- you must include a definition and an example sentence.
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