The < line > Family

Once you start thinking of words in terms of morphemes (and word sums), you just can't stop! Is limelight made up of lime + light? Actually, it is! Are inspect, spectatator, and spectacle related? Of course! What about chant and enchant? Like you cast a spell on someone by chanting at them? Yep!

While looking on my shelves for more books written in ALL CAPS, I found a great book for the < line > family. It's almost all caps, all except two phrases "the human projectile" and "a prism breaks up white light into colors."

As the line travels from page to page, always through different landscapes, the setting and characters change. And there are lots of words and phrases with < line > in them which would be fun to investigate!

Follow the Line
by Demi

Here goes:

she forgot her line

line of fire

line up

drop me a line

police line

ocean liner

one yard line

outline

timeline

line of vision

lifeline

heart line

bye line

by-line

end of the line

It is interesting to consider when something is a phrase (red house) as opposed to a compound word (lighthouse).

This set of words would allow you to explore together the three classes of compound words: open, closed, and hyphenated. Is "heart line" in palm reading a compound word or is heart an adjective here? What do you think?

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