VOCABULARY

One of the main problems when learning a language is the lack of words when it comes to speaking or reading. Many students latch on to the vocabulary they know and reeat the same words and structures over and over.

Here you are some helpful expressions that you can use to avoid repeting the adverb "very". You can use it all right, but once, or maybe twice. More than three times it may be seen as a lack of vocabulary.

Other ways to enrich your vocabulary is bby knowing how to form opposites. Opposites are words that are contrary to other words. For example, "black" is the opposite of "white", "high" is the opposite of "low"  and "hello" of "goodbye". Appart from lexical words to indicate an opposite, there are also certain afixes that can be added to words to form opposites. An affix is a meaningful unit which modifies the meaning of a word. It can be added to the beginning of the word (prefix), for example "dis-honest" or to the end of a word (suffix), for example "careless". Have a look at the picture below to have an idea of the negative prefixes used to negate words.