2020-01-04
9 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to the fourth of our podcast for this week, where we try to help you with your understanding of the english language and try to help you to improve, particularly your ability to communicate with others.
After all, it is a language of communication, so that's what we're trying to do.
So what do I have for you in this podcast?
Well, what we're going to do is look at some simple adjectives, okay?
And then we're going to add en.
That's the letter en, onto the end, and we're going to create a verb.
Okay?
So we're taking simple adjectives, adding just two letters, en, onto the end of it, and we're creating simple verbs, and I'll show you how to use those.
And these added letters en, these are what we call a suffix, s u f f I x.
So we add them onto the end of the adjective, and then this way, we're creating a new word, and in this case, it's a bit a verb.
Okay, so first one I have for you is the adjective black, as in the color black.
And if I add en onto the end of it, it becomes blacken.
Blacken.
And when I want to blacken something, I want to make it darker.
Okay?
So that's the actual meaning of it, to make it darker.
So, for example, if I want to blacken my face for a particular reason, perhaps if I'm a thief or a robber and I don't want to be spotted in the street, so I blacken my face so I cannot be recognized or I'm in the dark, nobody sees the reflection from.
From my face or my eyes.
And then I wear a hat or some other disguise, and I try to break into a house or steal a car or whatever is the crime that I'm looking to commit.