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Prefixes and Suffixes

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- 1PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES Alejandro Aguilar Licel 2018

- 2/-ism/ Derivational suffix which implies the practice or belief in something. Example: Criticism.

- 3/-ment/ Derivational suffix which turns a word into a noun. Example: Settlement.

- 4/-er/; /-or/ Derivational suffix. It turns a verb into a noun as the performer of such action. The allomorph may cause troubles in some learners. Example: Advisor.

- 5/-able/ Derivational suffix. It turns a word into an adjective for meaning 'able to'. Example: Reasonable.

- 6/-ate/ Derivational suffix which turns the word into a literal meaning for a verb; to produce or cause determined effect. Example: Imitate.

- 7/-ence/ Derivational suffix which inplies tha action of something. Performance. Example: Delincuence.

- 8/-ing/ Derivational suffix which turns the verb into a noun (the action itself) or adjective. Example: Driving.

- 9/-ile/ Derivational suffix. It implies being in a certain manner. Example: Futile.

- 10/-'s/ Inflectional suffix meaning the possession of something. Example: Grey's anatomy.

- 11/-est/ Inflectional suffix meaning the superlative of an adjective. Example: Strongest.

- 12/an-/ Negative prefix which implies the negation of the concept whom it is attached to. Example: Agnostic.

- 13/pan-/ Quantity prefix which determines the range of accuracy of a word. Example: Pantheism.

- 14/post-/ Spatial prefix. It commands an after situation when added to the word. Example. Postseason.

- 15/re-/ Spatial prefix which implies 'back' in an action or circumstance. Example: Remake.

- 16/dys-/ Negative prefix meaning 'bad' or done in a wrong manner. Example: Dysfunction.

- 17/dis-/ Spatial prefix meaning 'apart' when added to a word. Example: Dismantle.

- 18/anti-/ Spatial prefix which provides the word with an opposite meaning. Example: Antihero.

- 19/inter-/ Spatial prefix which implies in the middle of something, between. Example: Interaction.

- 20/de-/ Intensive prefix which adds a 'very' tone to the meaning of the word. Example: Denote.

- 21/pre-/ Spatial prefix meaning the 'before something', mostly providing a slightly opposite range. Example: Preconception.

- 22Reference: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~l150web/weblec1.4.html
