Example sentences for: suffixes

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

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

  • We meddle constantly with our linguistic roots, grafing suffixes and slang with equal abandon, and toss the resulting hybrids about us with the carelessness of toddlers flinging pablum.

  • Other suffixes such as - tion, -ate, and - ment are equally popular add-ons.

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

  • 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.


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