Week 1 will kick off with the Super Bowl champion Patriots hosting the Steelers on Thursday, Sept. 10. The first Sunday night game will pit the Giants and Cowboys in an NFC East showdown. A pair of NFC games form the Week 1 Monday Night Football doubleheader: Eagles at Falcons, and Vikings at 49ers.
There is a difference between the common use of the term phrase and its technical use in linguistics. In common usage, a phrase is usually a group of words with some special idiomatic meaning or other significance, such as all rights reserved, economical with the truth, kick the bucket, and the like.
In English grammar, a root is a word or word part from which other words grow, usually through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. The root of the word vocabulary, for example, is voc, a Latin root meaning word or name. This root also appears in the words advocacy, convocation, evocative, vocal, vociferous, and vowel. Understanding the meanings of the common word roots can help us deduce the meanings of new words that we encounter.