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    what is a rootwords?

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    A "ROOT WORD" is one from which others are generated.  For example:


    RUN is a root word for: runs running, ran (past tense of run)
    Think of it as the root and trunk of a tree.  All the words that are derived from it would be branches that have shot from the trunk


     



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