Hi For 'chord' and 'phase' I don't think you can specifically speak of a base word; instead they're more like derivations I think. Chord --> accord --> (Latin) Ad+cord --> 'cord' (heart) (here perhaps a

Hi I didn't mean to undermine your answer. I'm sorry if I implied such a thing, but I was merely giving an example and saying that, given the actual pronunciation of most of these suffixes, I find it more logical to use -ize, since people

Hi I am confused about the use of to or into --could you please help me out? I give my students questions like this: 1- By using suitable suffixes, change the following nouns to (into?) adjectives. Child, Fool, Danger, etc Change

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