Discuss word formation and its meaning.

Learning English word formation has the following advantages:

(1) Understand the structure of words and expand and consolidate the vocabulary you have learned. When reading scientific articles and professional materials, when encountering new words, we can analyze the meaning of the new words from the known components, and even "guess the words". Secondly, learning word formation is also very helpful for vocabulary memory and association.

(2) It helps to deeply understand the meaning of words.

(3) Cultivate the ability to use words flexibly and to create words.

Memorizing vocabulary through word formation can be said to be an effective way to draw inferences from others and get twice the result with half the effort. English word formation refers to the rules of English word formation. Word formation in English often has certain rules, which are collectively called word formation. Understanding and mastering word formation can effectively help us better understand the meaning of words, identify new words and expand our vocabulary. Common word formation in English includes transformation, synthesis and derivation.

(1) transformation: from one part of speech to another, such as water from the noun "water" to the verb "watering";

(2) Derivation: another word is formed by adding a prefix and a suffix, such as happy(adj) and the prefix un- to become unhappy (adj); Add the suffix -ness to become happiness (n. happiness);

(3) Synthesis: two or more words form a word, such as wood+cutting → woodcut, music+walking+auspicious → carefree-walking-auspicious.