Derivatives
Learn how affixation forms a new word from a root and how the position of an affix identifies it as a prefix or suffix.
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Derivatives: Affixation, Prefixes and Suffixes
Learn how affixation forms a new word from a root and how the position of an affix identifies it as a prefix or suffix.
Open article →Derivatives: Prefix Position and Word Building
See how a prefix comes before a root word and build rewrite, bicycle and unexpected from their mapped prefix-root combinations.
Open article →Derivatives: Prefix Meanings and Examples
Connect re-, un-, pre-, dis-, im-, non- and mis- with their mapped meanings and examples for accurate derivative recognition.
Open article →Derivatives: Suffix Position and Function
Learn how a suffix follows a root word, can change meaning or grammatical function, and forms happiness, colourful and friendship.
Open article →Derivatives: Fatter, Driving and Changeable
Study six mapped root-plus-suffix equations that form fatter, driving, changeable, useless, beautiful and lying.
Open article →Recognising Prefix and Suffix Derivatives
Identify prefixes and suffixes in ten mapped derivatives, from illiterate and disqualify to examination, establishment and slavish.
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