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英语构词法知识（Knowledge of word formation in English） Knowledge of word formation in English The Chinese legend is CHANGJEI created Chinese characters, there is no similar expression in english. But English researchers like Chinese scholars divided into Chinese characters pictographs, self explanatory, understanding, pictophonetic, transferring, etc. under the guise of six, the sources of English words are divided into five types: 1) basic words (base), 2 (combining) words words) and 3 (shortening), abbreviation words) 4) blends (blending words), 5) (shifting words) converted words. The basic words are those that seem to be indivisible today. Although these words are in a small number of English words, but the frequency of occurrence is higher, it is not a special memory. But for the other four types of words, we can use the general knowledge of word formation to skim the dictionary in the reading and guess what they mean. First, lets talk about acronyms. Abbreviation can be divided into two kinds: one is to complete the original word processing, shortening some of the letters form new words, which is called shortened words (clipped, word). For example, phone = telephone, Chute= parachute, copter = helicopter, auto = automobile, ad = advertisement, demo = demonstration, flu = influenza, fridge = refrigerator; another acronym acronym (acronyms), which is the first letter phrase into a word, for example: NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Radar = radio detecting and ranging; blending is the tailoring of the two words of the original part of the form, a new word, for example: smog smoke and = fog, Medicare = medical + care, psywar = psychological + warfare; lexical conversion is the conversion of the vocabulary does not change the morphology and lexical category and form the new words, so many examples, such as nouns into verbs: hand in one papers leg it along s, to, telephone; verb can also be transferred in the name of Words: take, a, look, a, find, a, cheat and so