By Prefixes

Davefromthefreeway wrote:How are you supposed to add -ing when a word ends with -y? For example: study, fly, try, etc... What are the rules of adding prefixes? Don't you mean suffixes ? Fly: flying, etc. Fly: flier, etc. Study: studied, etc. Your English/English dictionary will specify what...

How are you supposed to add -ing when a word ends with -y? For example: study, fly, try, etc... What are the rules of adding prefixes?

Could you recommend any websites which detail words by explaining their prefixes and suffixes? Thanks. LCChang

Wow, I had the same question, but with help from this thread, I got enough ideas to formulate some solutions of my own. Thank you!As for starter ideas, I thought of the terms:humanity/humanitarian,just,compassion,chivalrous,civil/civic,benevolent ...Benevolence vs Malevolence? I'm partial to...

Hi, What do these 2 prefixes mean? de- Derived from the Latin de = from, down from. eg activate / deactivate make active, make 'from' being active compose / decompose bring elements together, take elements 'from' each other e- a shortened form of the Latin ex = out, out from + various...

What do these 2 prefixes mean?

, I.e Elsewhere = DIS (Dis-Affected) UN distinction is semantic, not phonologically driven. Also these prefixes were most likely separate words origionally and over time changed to the bound morpheme we know them as. I see that most of them are semantically driven but there is a distiction...

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.

According to my dictionary, the bi- and semi- prefixes on -annual have the same meaning! This is totally exceptional! biweekly, bimonthly, biyearly, occurring once every two (weeks, months, years) semiweekly, semimonthy, semiyearly, occurring twice each (week, month,...

Hi Mister Micawber, Here was my friends original use of the word: Thanks for the article about Russia and the fairly non-informative email. To which I replied with some light-hearted taunting: ...Also, the proper antonym of informative is uninformative. If we venture too willy-nilly...