This chapter is like decorating a birthday cake. Have you ever started writing the person’s name in frosting and then realized that you started writing too large and now you have to squish everything into a small little corner of cake? That’s what happened to this chapter! I think every prefix in the English language is squished into this Chapter.
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The textbook gives you the outline for a prefix and two examples of the word and then moves on to the next prefix. Hardly enough time spent on a single prefix to feel it under your fingers. Oh, the instructors know that they can simply give us the new brief and we’ll eventually incorporate it into our steno, but the quiz for this chapter is Monday! That’s an incredible amount of prefixes to memorize in such a short period. I’ll have to study harder than usual for this quiz . . . It’s going to be one of those weekends.
Oh, wow. I took a look at my theory book for Chapter 38, and it really is a doozy. The only suggestion I have if you need more words to practice is to enter the prefix and then the * (like "self*") into one of the online dictionaries to bring up all possible entries containing the prefix. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea, Jenny! It's a lot of prefixes to memorize before the quiz on Monday, though.
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