Example sentences for: suffixes

How can you use “suffixes” 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.

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

  • Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.

  • Part IV: HOW ENGLISH WORDS ARE CREATED: A SHORT COURSE is a simplified, step-by-step presentation, which includes a large assortment of easy-to-understand charts and tables and illustrates how English words are constructed from native Latin-, and Greek-derived roots to which prefixes, suffixes, and other roots are affixed in accordance with precise linguistic rules.

  • All of these suffixes show up again and again in surnames, so they can be quickly recognized.


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