Suffixes – Cont.
In our last post, https://idiomanet.com.ar/2022/05/31/suffixes, we discussed suffixes as a resource for increasing vocabulary. Today, we will be dealing with prefixes. Prefixes are letters or groups of letters which, added…
In our last post, https://idiomanet.com.ar/2022/05/31/suffixes, we discussed suffixes as a resource for increasing vocabulary. Today, we will be dealing with prefixes. Prefixes are letters or groups of letters which, added…
Suffixes are letters or groups of letters which, added at the end of a word, make up a new word. There are suffixes that build nouns, others build adjectives and…
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