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Prefixes and suffixes
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Adjectival suffixes: '-ic', '-al'
'electric' or 'electrical'? Roger Woodham answers
Hyphenated adjectives
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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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Youngsters and youths
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Soon and when
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