My question may be a little strange...but I appreciate any help I can get. Given a passive sentence: "The subjects have been captured by the officer"... ...and applying transformational rules to the underlying structure... Underlying Structure:

1. There is the historical proof the myth could not invent the Cross. The cross was the means of execution employed by the ancient Romans (among others). In that sense, it is equivalent ... more like a T, so the extra part with 'inri'

1. There is the historical proof the myth could not invent the Cross. The cross was the means of execution employed by the ancient Romans (among others). In that sense, it is equivalent to the gas chamber, electric chair, gallows, or firing squad.

If anything I would say it is regressive since the affix is changing depending on the following phonemes. Ill try to figure it out and report back in a few minutes.

Hi, In terms of general usage, you'll hear 'attached' very commonly and 'affixed' almost never. Best wishes, Clive

>attatch --------- ATTACH suggests strongly a connection or union, a bond or link to prevent motion or keep one thing with another < attach a cover by means of a brass hinge> < attach a card to the package> <guinea fowl

Hi, 1/Do affix and attatch have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in menaing btw them? 2/Do affixed document and attatch document have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the

Anonymous wrote: I have read an article which predicted English will be the global language inevitably. Are there any different opinions? Nothing is inevitable. And there are other options. For instance, we could start using Esperanto

anti-, micro-, re-, -tion, -ish, etc. are not stems (roots); they are affixes. In bluish , blue is a stem and ish is an affix. In convenience , ven is a stem, and con- and -ence are affixes. There are thousands of roots in English. I

Affix = prefix or suffix . Ir of irritable appears to be neither, at least in English, as it comes from L. irritatus , from pp. stem of irritare 'excite, provoke.'