On Day 2 we learn about:
- Root Words: This is the word without a suffix or prefix - like the word "Elect" is the root word of "Election" or "Dance" is the root word of dancing, danced, dances.
- Idioms: A combination of words that have a different FIGURATIVE meaning than the implied LITERAL meaning. For example, when we say "Cool as a cucumber" we don't mean you are cold like a cucumber that has been in the fridge.. we mean your are stay cool or chill, not freaking out!
- Synonyms: We can use a thesaurus to find the synonyms of words. Synonyms are other words we can use that mean the same thing. For example for funny we can use: hillarious, or goofy, or comedy.
- Antonyms are the opposite of synonyms - they mean the opposite of the word - For example the opposite of cool is warm, happy and sad, mean and nice.
Remember: A subject is what we are talking about in our sentence, and a predicate is what the subject is doing (usually a verb or action word). To have a complete sentence we need both the subject and predicate or we call it a sentence fragment!
