Jennifer Velazquez

Reagan was right: Freedom ­really is a fragile thing.

The study of how words are formed and their origin both fall under the umbrella of linguistics, but they belong to different branches:

1. Word Formation – Morphology

• This branch studies how words are formed using roots, prefixes, suffixes, and compounding (e.g., un + happy = unhappy).

• It looks at patterns like verb conjugation, pluralization, and