ELTer
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- Joined
- Jun 24, 2011
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
I had an interesting question in my adult ESL class yesterday. The book talks about word families, and had a chart to fill in with headings of: noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. It gave "actively" as the adverb. What is the root of "actively" - "act" or "active" or...? Also, what would the noun of "actively" be - "act"? If this is so, then what is the verb - "act" or "activate" or something else?... I figured the adjective that goes with "actively" would be "active" but I had trouble working backwards with the students to figure out what the verb and noun would be if the adjective is "active..."