English Grammar Daily

🎶 #SINGALONG #SATURDAY 🎶 🤓 We've learned about some ROOTS this week and this song has some words with these roots: -SENS- -VIS- -PRESS- -LEV- -SCRIB- 👇 Read the lyrics and guess what's behind the spoilers. Then listen and check! I'm walking through the crowd, feeling all alone, With a sensitive soul that's never fully shown. They don’t see the world the way I do, I’m invisible, but I still push through. Chorus: I try to express the way I feel, But the words get lost, they never seem real. I'm searching for relief, for a way to be, Where my thoughts aren't just a mystery. Can you describe the way you see me now? Am I just a shadow, fading in the crowd? I leave an impression, though it might be small, In this invisible heartbeat, I still stand tall. Every glance, every word, they pass me by, But inside I’m burning, reaching for the sky. I might seem fragile, like I could break, But there's strength in every step I take. In the silence, I find my voice, In the chaos, I make my choice. You may not see me, but I know I’m here, This invisible heart beats loud and clear. In this invisible heartbeat, I still stand tall, I’m sensitive, but I’m not invisible at all.

#ROOTS FOR MOVEMENT 🤓 Let's look at the roots of words for moving ourselves and other things or people. -PRESS- is for PUSHING: • The Press Officer was impressed with how she expressed herself. -TRACT- is for PULLING: • Negotiations over the contract for new tractors were protracted. -LEV- is for RAISING or LIFTING: • I was relieved that the stage had been elevated. -VERT- is for TURNING: • The camp converted him from an introvert to an extrovert.

#ROOTS FOR SKILLS 🤓 Let's look at the roots of words for essential language skills. 👇 Click the links 🔗 below to understand more! -LEG- or -LECT- for READING: • His handwriting is illegible, so I record the lectures instead. -SCRIB- or -SCRIP- for WRITING: • Subscribers to my channel can see the original script. -DICT- for SPEAKING: • He dictated all of his letters but sometimes looked in the dictionary.

#ROOTS FOR #SENSES 🤓 Let’s take a look at roots about the SENSES. 🙏 -SENS- is a root for FEELINGS or SENSES: • Words like sensible, sensor, and sensation. 👀 Words with -VID- or -VIS- are about SEEING: • Visible, evidence, revision. 👂If you spot -AUD- it’s about HEARING: • Audible, audience, audition. Come back later for questions about these words!

ADDING PREFIXES: -DUCT- 🤓 The root -DUCT- means ‘leading something or someone’. 👇 Click the links 🔗 below to understand more! • As a noun, a ‘duct' is a tube or channel to lead air or water to somewhere else. We can add different PREFIXES to change the meaning: • Adding con- (with) we get the verb ‘to conduct’ which means to lead or direct. • Adding pro- (for) we get the noun ‘product’ meaning ‘something which is made’ • Adding ab- (away) we get the verb ‘abduct’ meaning ‘to take someone away against their will’. Just like with -PORT- we can add SUFFIXES to create more complex words: • Putting -or at the end of a verb creates ‘conductor’ and ‘abductor’, people who do those things. • Adding -ion creates an abstract noun for the process: ‘production’ and ‘abduction’ Learn roots, prefixes and suffixes and you’ll know many more words!

WHAT ARE… ROOTS? 🤓 Roots are what we call the central core of a word to which we add PREFIXES and SUFFIXES to make words. Take the root -PORT- which is about ‘carrying’. • As a NOUN, ‘port’ means a place where things can be carried away by boat. • We can add the suffix -er (someone or something that does this) to make ‘porter’, a person who carries something. • If we add the prefix trans-, meaning ‘across’, we get ‘transport’ - carrying things or people across space. • If we add both a suffix and a prefix, we get ‘transporter’ - something which carries things across space. • To make it an ADJECTIVE, we can add the suffix -able, which means ‘we can do this to it’, giving us ‘portable’ - something we can carry. Learning roots will help you improve your vocabulary faster!