Example sentences for: suffixes

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

  • ’ Separate treatment is given, in situ , to prefixed and suffixes, and detailed discussions of compounds and phrases, connected speech, neutralization, and other phonetic matters and language environments that affect pronunciation appear in their appropriate alphabetic places.

  • It is supposed, however, that it is an abbreviation for jeroboam, which started off life as a large bowl for holding wine [I Kings xi. 28/xiv. 16]; the addition of the suffixes -y, -ie, and -ey to the main stem of a word have always been popular ways of forming diminutives.

  • 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.

  • Chapter 6 discusses, under A Few More Words, a number of suffixes ( -trix, -ess , etc.) and words ( hero/ heroine, alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae , etc.) that apparently offend the authors: they campaign for the elimination of la différence . My own attitude is that I find such terms not in the least denigrating: Why should a woman object to being called a heroine, a divorcée, or an actress any more than being called a female or a woman?

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


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