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.

  • Namespace prefixes are allowed.

  • This book is really a comprehensive study of word formation in English, dealing with roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

  • It was a simple matter to find words beginning with prefixes like anti-, pre-, pro-, un-, etc., but finding those that ended in -able, -graph, -ity, -ous , etc. was an entirely different matter.

  • The LAT reports on a minor variant of the Y2K problem: pre-paid headstones with precarved year-of-death prefixes reading 19--, owned by folks who are living longer than they expected to.


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