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explain with suitable examples how new words are built in English through affixation and compounding


sandeep kumar Sharma 7th Oct, 2020
Answer (1)
kritiesse 4th Nov, 2020

hello,


Affixation is the formation of words by adding derivational affixes to different types of bases. An affix is not-root or a bound morpheme that modifies the meaning and / or syntactic category of the stem in some way. Affixes are classified into prefixes and suffixes.

Example:

Prefix

anti- (against or opposite) ... dis- (lack of, apart, reversal, or not)


Suffixes

-able (able to, susceptible of, or given to) portable

-ible (able to be or relevant to) incomprehensible



Compound words are formed when two or more words are joined together to create a new word that has an entirely new meaning. For example, “sun” and “flower” are two different words, but when fused together, they form another word, Sunflower  or “make up” and “makeup”.


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