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Learning English Roots

monograph
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix



monograph
a written account of on a single thing; a treatise on a small area of learning
专题论文
Dissection of monograph
monograph = mono- (one, single) + graph (write, draw, describe, record, carve)
monograph = a written account on a single thing
Now Repeat my Dissection
Important roots for this word:
graph
mono-

Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
Repetition is the key to learning. Now please try to dissect the word into the roots that you know yourself in the box below:
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