Learn ADVANCED English with the News | BBC Special with Obama

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Before we continue, why not pause the  video and write a sentence about you in  
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the comments below using the structure  not only... but also? Here's mine:
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So download it right now for  free by clicking here or in  
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the description below or simply search  for RealLife in your favorite app store.
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Word formation basically has to do with the  forming of new words with the words that you  
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already know. The key for you to master  word formation is learning about prefixes  
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and suffixes. Now this changes the meaning of  a word. Prefixes are added to the beginning of  
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the word and suffixes are added to the end of  the word. For example, let's look at the word  
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imperfectly. The first thing you want to  do is get to the root or base of the word.  
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In this case the root is "perfect" from there  you add either prefixes or suffixes to change  
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the original meaning. In this example we have  the suffix L Y and the prefix I M. Also notice  
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that we use the words differently. For example,  "he's a perfect swimmer." "He swims perfectly."
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