Word families
When you’re learning vocabulary, it can be helpful to learn more than one part of speech.
For example, we learned these words in Workplace Safety 1: Safety Attitude
- notification
- notify
They belong to the same word family.
- notification is a noun that means official information about something.
- notify is a verb that means to formally or officially tell someone about something (inform is a synonym of notify)
Can you see how they are connected?
Look at the first line of this table, do you know what these parts of speech mean: noun, verb, adjective, adverb? Can you give some examples of each?
Below the table are some vocabulary words from the video Electrical Safety & Hazardous Chemicals. Do you remember what they mean? (If you need to, you can check out the flashcards at this link.)
Now see if you can put the words with their word families. Drag each word into the correct row and column in the table below.
Notice the noun advice and the verb advise. What’s the difference in spelling?
What’s the difference in pronunciation?
Notice the parts of the word in bold. Those are the stressed syllables. Stressed syllables are pronounced a little bit higher, louder, and longer than unstressed syllables.
More practice
Open the Exercise and try to find the words from this unit.