Chapter 6, demonstrates the formation of words in English language, and how those are created with different patterns. Its most of the concepts illustrate how the words are formed with different languages, sounds, verbs, nouns, adjectives and names of the persons. According to Etymology, there are many different ways new words entered in English language. For instances, Coinage is one of the least common processes of word formation that invents totally new terms. The most typical sources are invented trades names for commercial products that becomes general terms for any versions of that products such as Kleenex, Tylenol, and Teflon.
There are many words are made from name of the people and it describes as Eponyms; for example, the words fahrenheit is from the German, Gabriel Fahrenheit, and Volt from the Italian, Alessandro Volta. Borrowing is one of the process of word formation that taking over the words from other languages; croissant is one of the words that came from French. When two separate words produce a single form of the word that describes as compounding; for instances, the word bookcase is compounding that created with two different words.
Additionally, the process of Blending, Clipping, Backformation, Conversion, Acronyms and Derivation are among those patterns that also describe how the words are created in English Language.
Chapter 7, focuses the morphology, meaning the rules of word formation, in addition to discussing the morphems, and its different patterns of the word stucture such as free and bound morphems, lexical and functional morphemes, derivational and inflectional morphemes, and morphological description.
The definition of a morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. According to the pattern of morphemes, there are a huge distinction between two types of morphemes; these are the free and bound morphemes. Free morphemes can stand or function by themselves as single words, for example, open and tour. However, the morphemes wich are bound cannot stand without being attached to another forms, such as re-, -ist, -ed, and -s are among them. To describe about the free morphemes, we can separate this into two catagories. The first catagory is lexical morphemes that functions with the noun, adjective and verb. The second types of free morphemes are called functional morphemes that consists of the functional words in the language such as conjuction, preposition, articles, and pronoun; and as an example, but, when, and becuase are among them.
However, the morphems that are bound also divided into two types. These are the derivation and inflectional morphemes. People use the derivation morphemes to make new words of a different grammatical catagory from the stem; for example, the derivation morpheme -ness, changes the adjective good, to the noun goodness. However, the reason why people also use the functional morphemes because it shows if a word is plural or singular, it it is past tense or not, or if it is a comparative or possesive form.
After observing the distinguish-patterns of the morphemes, it easy to understand how various words are created in order to form a phrase or sentence. Moreover, It also demonstrates the morphemes of the other languages and how those things make a particular number of singular or plural, in addition to forming the word from adjective to noun.
Chapter 8, demonstrates the structure of the phrases and sentence. To organize any sentence, it's important to understand the rules of grammar. Therefore, without knowing any rules, we cannot make any organized sentence. English language provides eight parts of speech, and these are the noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, prepostion, conjuction, and article. Beside English, every language has their different types of grammar to follow. For example, grammatical gender is one type of rules that is followed by Spanish, French, German or among other languages. Spanish language has two grammatical gender, masculine and feminine; for example, el sol (the sun) is considered as masculine and the la luna (the moon) is for feminine. By concentrating the grammar, a person could be able to organize any sentence perfectly.
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