By Grammar, Suffixes

When you say that English morphology is simple, I assume you are referring to the comparative lack of grammatical inflection. English employs a wide range of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. So, while English is highly analytic, it is by no means totally isolating, though it has isolating...

Hello Grammar Teacher/Teachers, 1. Could you teach me how and when to use suffixes and prefixes that are available from the dictionaries,for example, to form a noun,a verb and an adjective ? Thank you. With best wishes.

Mister Micawber wrote:Offhand, I would say that the addition of affixes other than negative or negative-like prefixes do not generally affect word stress, since they are usually unstressed themselves-- but that there are also many exceptions.I don't know of any dedicated websites, though most...

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...

Mr Pedantic, Truly you deserve the epithet by which you identify yourself. I sensed you were going to put me on the spot this way. Worse still, I know there is every chance that the examples I could furnish (from Gonda or not) won’t convince you. In fact, in a way some of them don’t...

Hi Ellie-- welcome to English Forums. There are no rules, just some common options, like '-ate' verbs change to '-ation' nouns. Most grammar books list the most widespread suffixes. I'd stick with the dictionary, if I were you.

Su's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I...

Regarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't many) requires knowing only two other words in...

Rommie, what offense, what are you talking about? I said I ain't an Esperanto fan I agree that an artifical language must be designed for comfortable usage. Maybe, it would be better to avoid genders in artifical languages for simplicity. But if there are genders in Esperanto, let them be....

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...