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Prefixes and suffixes

Answers to questions about the letters we add at the beginning and end of words.

Adjectival suffixes: '-ic', '-al'
'electric' or 'electrical'? Roger Woodham answers
Hyphenated adjectives; '-ise' and '-ize' and articles
Massimo Vitale from Italy has three questions...
Job title suffixes
Is there a rule about when to use '-er' and when to use '-ist' at the end of a job title?
Negative prefixes: un-, in-, im-, il-, dis-
Garnet Teo from Singapore asks about the difference between flammable and inflammable
Noun suffixes
Yee from Hong Kong finds out which suffixes we use to make nouns
Suffixes: -less, -free
'Sugarfree' or 'sugarless'? When to add 'less' and when to add '-free' to form an adjective

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