Dear, Anett a prefix goes on the begining of a sentence like un-,dis-,pre, and in. if you took the word like and added the prefix un- , to ityou get unlike wich means you dont like something.

Actually "unlike" means not the same as, or dissimilar. "DISlike" means you don't like something.

my name is suma .i m from bangalore i sent you the first reply i forgot to say my name and also i gave only 4 example for prefix but i did not give for suffix 1.pain=painless 2.use=useful and we can use useless 3.fear =fearless

Hi Whitegirl, A prefix is an addition that preceds the root of the word.A prefix changes the meaning of the word. Some prefixes are: un,dis,in,im,ir,re ,..etc Eg.responsible: Ir responsible

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

Yes, these are prefixes

Hi Ivantalk, Thanks for the reply. That surprises me. So none of them are either prefixes ...
articles about Binary abbreviations (prefixes). http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefBin.xhtml http

I think when people say such terms are prefixes, they're specifically referring to the abbreviation itself. What I mean is that the "B" stands for Bits in MiB and KiB and Bytes in MB

use the phrases "binary prefixes", "SI prefixes" etc. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org

Hi, I just have one confusion of where to apply the negative prefixes life un,dis,non,a correctly ...
how to apply the correct negative prefixes. So, can anyone help me out please. Thanks, praveen.