By Suffixes, Negatives

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...

Google should be able to help you with suffixes. There are many! Here's a good list: http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/English-suffixes-1.html There are several pages of suffixes at that site. CJ

Dear Califjim, I'm an English teacher in Peru and I was just trying to find some information regarding Suffixes, and to be honest with you have shed some light upon that issue. Thanks a lot ...

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...

Hi Fred! I hope I'm going to have right: I attend university as well as you majoring English and American studeis in Hungary. have you ever heard about derivation. Now "disillusionment" is one of it. There ae certain types of it, for instance deriving from verb to noun, from Adj to N, and...

Hello As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X" (e.g., boorish, foolish, swinish). But some words...

Hi... I've been thinking through this problem and would appreciate some input... both suffixes -ish and -like turn a noun into an adjective, but there is a difference seen in the meanings each of them give to words. If one compares childish and childlike, it is obvious that childish has a more...

Hi again, In my view / In my opinion / From my point of view, Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe. This may be ´. Once again, you've done an excellent job. Clive

Hi people! Correcting is giving me a really hard time and I'd appreciate it if you could take some minutes to read this since you've been so helpful!! Here's the original version: In my point of view, Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe. This is may be because our...