Question

What is word formation

Answer 1

Definition

word formation refers to the ways in which new words are made on the basis of other words or morphemes. Also called derivational morphology.

Answer 2

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Words are made from root words, prefixes and suffixes. The simplest and most basic form of a word is called a root word. A great number of words in English forming by adding a set of letters to the root word.

A prefix is a set of letters ( which we can also call a word element) added to the beginning of a root word to form a new word. Some prefixes are - un-, dis-, ex-, etc.

Happy - unhappy

agree - disagree

port - import; export

A suffix is a set of letters ( or a word element) added to the end of the root word to form a new word. Some suffixes are : -er, -able, -ful and -less.

Teach - teacher.

Break - breakable

Care - Careful ; careless.