By Adverbs, Prefixes

When it comes to above and below used as adjectives, I prefer them after the noun. Some people insist that they can be used in front of the nouns, but that grates on my ear as much as the asleep man or saying We did that the before time instead of We did that the time before. It seems to me...

Miles -- I don't mean to be too discouraging, but "performaly" is not a word. I'm not even sure what an adjective form of a verb would be, unless you mean somehing like "a performing bear," in which case you would use the gerund. Not all parts of speech can be turned into other parts of speech...

Hi! I'd like to ask anybody. How can I easely learn prefixes an suffixes. Is there a dictionary what can easely help me? For instance, I can have the verb perform. Noun is performance, person is performer, adjective is performaly, and negative adjective, adverb and negative adverb. My dream...

I don't think I understand the question. Nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are called parts of speech. Is that the terminology you're looking for? The study of how words are put together using meaningful prefixes and suffixes like -ness, -able, -ly, and so on, is called morphology. Is that...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways to...

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is the worst of all! 2. I'm reproducing Taiwandave's post...

There is no rule. Words with these prefixes have come about through accidents of history. The most usual is "un-", but always consult a dictionary. The following does not really answer your question, but you may find it somewhat useful anyway, especially if you're willing to work to dig some...

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens. The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine's style guide. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for: 1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or adjectives): two-thirds, four-fifths, one-sixth, etc. 2....