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Latin Roots
mct grammar town roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pre | before |
| pos | put |
| ad | to |
| nom | noun |
| inter | between |
| junct | join |
| plex | twist, fold |
| verbum | word |
| in | in or not |
| ante | before |
| com | together |
| pro | for |
| ject | throw |
| con | together |
| pound | weigh |
| dict | say |
| sub | under |
| ap | beside |
| pre | before |
| pos | put |
| ad | to |
| nom | noun |
| inter | between |
| junct | join |
| plex | twist, fold |
| verbum | word |
| in | in or not |
| ante | before |
| com | together |
| pro | for |
| ject | throw |
| con | together |
| pound | weigh |
| dict | say |
| sub | under |
| ap | beside |
| four ways of thinking about language | 1. parts of speech 2. parts of the sentence 3. phrases 4. clauses |
| parts of speech | the eight kinds of words |
| parts of the sentence | how words make ideas |
| phrases | little groups of words |
| clauses | simple or complicated ideas |
| the eight parts of speech | nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections |
| two main kinds of words | nouns (or the pronoun that means it) and verbs |
| nouns | name person, place, things or ideas |
| Proper nouns | like England and Jane - are capitalized |
| Common nouns | like country, person, and sandwich, are not capitalized |
| singular noun | a noun naming one thing like tree |
| plural noun | a noun naming more than one thing, like trees |
| pronouns | quick words we use, when we do not want to repeat a whole long noun. Instead of saying Samuel Langhorn Clemens (Mark Twain) we can just say he. Pronouns make language FAST! Pronoun means "for the noun." It is a quick short cut sound to name the noun. |
| the possessive its | has no apostrophe. The word it's is a contraction that means it is. Its a good idea to know its name. |
| anno | year |
| domino | lord |
| a.d. | anno domini |
| anno domini | in the year of the Lord (after Christ) |
| sum | I am |
| nauta | sailor |