Example sentences for: prefixes

How can you use “prefixes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English.

  • , and fails to explain what is metaphorical about She is ailing . Third--though here we might not be dealing with Ayto's decision as much as the publisher's--it is simply not convenient to have a dictionary of etymology that excludes all bound prefixes and suffixes, though these are glossed, as required, when they are part of an entry.

  • It used a “hashing” technique, storing word roots, suffixes, and prefixes.

  • It's an 18 th -century coinage that combines four Latin prefixes meaning "nothing."

  • In operation it would strip recognized suffixes and prefixes from words, check for the word root, and use rules stored in the program to determine whether the suffixes and prefixes were added correctly.


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