>attatch --------- ATTACH suggests strongly a connection or union, a bond or link to prevent motion or keep one thing with another < attach a cover by means of a brass hinge> < attach a card to the package> <guinea fowl attach themselves firmly to the place where they were born -- F...

Hi, 1/Do affix and attatch have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in menaing btw them? 2/Do affixed document and attatch document have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in menaing btw them? Q

Hi, In terms of general usage, you'll hear 'attached' very commonly and 'affixed' almost never. Best wishes, Clive

"You shall sign and affix your seal on the contract. " I feel that "your name" is missing after "sign" in the above sentence. Can someone make some comments on this sentence? Thank you.

Hi folks: I would like to know some details about how affix cause stress shift espeicially in multi-syllable words. I heard that Latin and Greek suffix play an important role in stress shift.Any detail or recommend website that I can refer to?Any website regarding stress patterns or how suffix causing...

You could say sign your name if you really wanted to but it is not necessary and does sound a bit odd actually, everyone knows that when you sign something, you are signing your name. That is what sign means. Common phrases 'sign here;sign on the dotted line; sign a contract; sign below; sign in the...

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 grammar sites probably mention...

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 grammar...

Typical Greek suffixes. Primary stress on the third syllable from the end. (First vowel shown may vary.) ocracy, opathy, otony, otany, otomy, ophony, ology, onomy, otrophy, ogamy, ography, ophany, osophy, ognomy, ogony, omaly, opoly, ogeny, ochrony, ochromy, olatry, omathy, ometry, onymy, oscopy, otropy...

Neither term is right. It's called affixation since un is an affix. CB