Bases, suffixes, and prefixes.
Man Manly Mannish
Manful Unmanly
Man is a noun most of the time
Mainly, mannish manful unmanly are adjectives
meaning “ like a man” with other connotation.
All have something in common, namely the base
man and that the various parts that are added
before and after this form with additional, or
different, meaning or change it to the part of
speech.
The particles –ly,
-sih, and –ful are called suffixes
because they added after the base.
The word ‘unmanly’ is the opposite of manly in
meaning: -un is a particle that is added before the
base. It is called a prefix
¨Two kind of suffixes
¨Inflection suffixes are the ones you learn in your study
of grammar: the –s or –es ending on verbs with
subject he, she, it. The ing ending on verb
forms: The –ed of the past tense of
verbs: the –s that makes nouns plural; the –er
that makes adjectives comparatives.
¨Derivational suffixes
Change the meaning of
the base in some important way, or else change it into a different words class.
They turn noun into the adjectives, adjectives into verb. They add new meaning
to the base.
Establish
Disestablish
Disestablishment
Disestablishmentarian
Disestablishmentarianism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Establish : “grant special state privileges to a church”
Disestablishment: take away special privileges
Disestablishmentarian: one who advocate this
establishment
Disestablishmentarianism: the doctrine of establishment
Antidisestablishmentarianism: opposition to doctrine of
establishing the church.
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