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Example sentences for: suffix

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The adjectival suffix - al is often slapped on words that already are adjectives.
That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
As a suffix it survives in churchyard, dockyard , and shipyard .
In practice, it was never necessary to assign a suffix beyond '_EPK1'.
One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .