IT Video Using Window Movie Maker

This WMM video is specially made for all library users, mainly school students around IIUM main campus in the age of 10-17. The objective of this video is to promote IIUM library to the people outside the campus, especially to school students in both primary and secondary schools. We want to educate them on how to use the library thus encouraging them to make a full use of facilities inside the library without violating any rules and regulations.

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Words

The basic unit of language that we will consider in our study of English grammar is the sentence because that is the level at which grammar primarily operates. In order to do this, we need first to consider the items that make up a sentence : the words. Words must be in a certain order for us to understand a sentence.

MORPHEME

Words in a language consists of elements called morphemes. Basically, there are two types :

Free morpheme and bound morpheme.

Free morpheme

Morpheme that can stand freely by themselves as independent words.

Example : Fast, Tiger, Build, Are

Free morpheme can be further divided into two groups : 

(1) Lexical morpheme (Content words)

Content words allowed us to create an image of some kind in our minds.

Example : When we heard the word 'Tiger', we are able to conjure up a picture of a large stripe cat.

(2) Grammatical morpheme (Function words)

Function words show us relationship among content words, but by themselves, they do not have power to create an image in our mind.

Example : When we heard the word 'Are', we are dependent on content words to give this function word a meaning.

Bound morpheme

The elements that cannot stand freely and independently, like the suffix and prefix, are called bound morphemes because they are bound or connected to free morphemes.

Example : re-, -ness, -ous, -ed

Bound morphemes can be divided into two groups :

(1) Derivational morphemes

They allow us to make new words in the language and to change one grammatical category into another.

Example : State -> Restate

               Quiet -> Quietness

               Mystery -> Mysterious

(2) Inflectional morphemes

Their purpose is not to create new words or grammatical categories but rather to show the grammatical function of a word.

Example : Pencil -> Pencils

               Small -> Smaller

               Talk -> Talking

To learn more about words and morphemes, you can always refer to these following websites :

http://tripatlas.com/Morpheme

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAMorpheme.htm

http://myenglishstore.blogspot.com/2011/02/morphemes.html

Using Photoshop to Restore Old Photo

There are times when people may have old photographs that they would like to restore as memories. However, photos usually get damaged through the times. The pictures may be blurred, the colour may fades and the picture might have marks and scratches. Thanks to the technology of today, people can now save and restore their old photos with the help of Adobe Photoshop. For example :

 BEFORE 

 

AFTER

For more info, check out this following websites to learn more on how to restore your old photos.

http://www.evisibility.com/blog/repair-damaged-pictures/

http://iipvapi.com/photo-restoration.html 

Tell you a little bit about us!

May Peace be upon you.
We're TEASL students, from Bachelor of Education, IIUM.

Broken grammar? Here we come to fix you up, people!
Presenting you, Miss Amirah.
I'm Amirah Husna Mohamad Razali (1024622), your grammar Principal.
Born on December 24th, I'm a 19 year-old girl with a very
fussy attitude. Please bear with me, students!

Followed by Miss Idayu.
Nas Idayu Muhd Nazri (1029992), your grammar senior assistant.
Originally from Kedah, she was born on February 26th.
She is here to assist you on how to apply a better grammar
in English language.

Next, here come your disciplinary teacher, Miss Azira.
Nurfatin Farhana Azira Azizi (1020532) was the name given,
and she was born on November 23rd.
Let's have fun learning grammar in style.
Not to forget, behave your manner in language!

In School of Grammar, we eagerly promote an easy way
of enriching the laws of human language.
Discover your quality and power in language here :)
Rise and shine, everybody!
The best is yet to come!