Unlocking Language: The Power of Morphemes

You think a word is the smallest part of language, but you are wrong. Words are actually

built like Lego sets using things called morphemes. Look at the word unhappiness.

That is not one word; it is three distinct codes. You have happy, the core feeling.

You have un, which reverses it. And ness, which turns that feeling into a noun.

Some pieces, like cat, can hang out alone. But others, like the s in cats,

are clingy and need a host to exist. This is morphology. It is the cheat code that lets you

take a root word and hack it into a verb, a noun, or an adjective

just by snapping on a prefix. Once you see the structure, you stop just memorizing