【正文】 other words using some of these prefixes and suffixes without graph. Biology is the study of life. What do you think is the meaning of biologic? If the prefix anti means against, what does antibiotic really mean? There are hundreds of Latin and Greek prefixes in the English language, and the possibilities for inventing new words are endless. Every day, as we make new discoveries in science and technology, we invent new words to describe them. Many of these new words are binations of root words and prefixes and suffixes which have already existed in English for centuries. Another kind of invented word is the nonsense word. Some nonsense words are used for a while by only a few people and then disappear pletely from the language, never to be used again. Others, when they bee popular enough and are used over a period of time, bee a permanent part of the language. If enough people decide and agree on the meaning of an invented word, it is here to stay. Some examples of everyday modern words which probably began as nonsense words centuries ago are: bad, big, lad, lass, chat, job and fun. Linguists guess that these are nonsense words because they have not been able to trace them back to any of the ancestor languages. Just who invented them, and when or where remains a puzzle. Puzzle itself is one of these mystery words. No one knows where it came from. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, was a great inventor of nonsense words. As a matter of fact, he created a whole language of nonsense. Most of Carroll39。s name written in his or her handwriting biography － story of a person39。 like photo light ology study of tele distant phone sound Here are some words made with graph. autograph － signature。s sales records. Now, by adding the prefixes and suffixes listed below to graph, we can make several new words. Notice that graph is part of a longer suffix as well as a suffix by itself. Prefixes Suffixes 英語泛讀教程 3 (Unit 17 課文 ) ants05 2 auto self graphy study of 。 naut means having to do with sailing. So, an astronaut is a starsailor. Other words can be root words, prefixes or suffixes, depending on where they e in the word. Remember, the prefix es first, the root word second, and the suffix last. As an example, let39。 Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist。 and invented words. Ampere, volt and watt are all units of electricity, and they are named for the men who discovered them。英語泛讀教程 3 (Unit 17 課文 ) ants05 1 Unit 1 1 Text Invented Words New words appear in English every day. Do you know how these words are born? Read the following passage to find various ways English words are invented. Scholars guess that English has about 600 000 words, but there are probably more. New words continue to e into the language at such a rate that no dictionary could possibly keep up with them. The old words which were born centuries ago in the AngloSaxon, Germanic and French languages make up four fifths of the English language. The other one fifth is made up partly of borrowed words and partly of three other kinds of words: words from the names of peoples and places。 imitative words。 Andre M. Ampere, a French physicist。 and James Watt, a Scottish engineer and inventor. Nowadays we all drink pasteurized milk, that is, milk which is clean and purified. Pasteurized gets its name from Louis Pasteur, a French doctor who invented the process for purifying milk. There are many words like this in the English language. Imitative words are words that sound like the thing or action they stand for. Here are some examples: buzz click bang mumble chirp bawl crash clap mutter giggle hum gulp There is no need to say anything else about these words, for they speak for themselves. You can probably think of many more. Then there are the invented words. Englishspeaking people have always made up words as it suited them, and they continue to do so every day. One kind of invented word is one which is made up of two other words. Dictionaries call this kind of word a pound. If you put play and thing together, you get the pound, plaything. How many can you add to this list? raincoat milkshake upstairs standstill headlight shutout sailboat downstairs ine headline As well as putting two whole words together, we also add parts of words called prefixes and suffixes to the whole words. Most prefixes and suffixes e from Latin or Greek, and each has a special meaning of its own. When we add a prefix before a word or a suffix at the end of it, we change its meaning. For example, the prefix re means again. If we add re to do or paint, we get two new words meaning do again and paint again. Un means the opposite of or not. By adding un to happy or kind, we get unhappy or unkind, meaning not happy and not kind. The suffix ness means the condition of. Happiness and kindness are the conditions of being happy and kind. It is easy to see the meanings of unhappiness and unkindness. The word to which we attach the prefixes and suffixes is called the root word. In a word like unkindness the root word is kind. Some words, like astronaut, are made up entirely of Greek or Latin prefixes and suffixes. Astro is a Greek prefix meaning having to do with the stars。s take the word graph and build several different invented words with it by adding prefixes and suffixes to it or using it as a prefix or suffix. Graph by itself means anything which is shown to us in pictures or writing. For instance, your teacher might want to keep track of your reading progress by drawing a graph of your reading test scores, or a businessman might draw graphs which show the ups and downs of his pany39。 art of bio life graph something wri