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Tag Archives: suffix
-ization station
lesson: learning the meaning of the suffix –ization Realization. Industrialization. Immobilization. We use words ending in the suffix -ization so frequently that many native English speakers might not know what –ization even means and how adding it changes the meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged word usage, confusing words, sentence structure, suffix, copy editing, -ization
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Piles of –philes
Lesson: learning the suffix -phile and other awesomeness Bibliophile. Logophile. Discophile. These are three words that describe me. Lover of books. Lover of words. Lover of “gramophone records.” When you add the suffix –phile to the end of a word, … Continue reading
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Tagged -phile, etymology, semantics, suffix, vocabulary, word usage
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Simply dashing part three: the hyphen
Welcome back for our final installment from the horizontal language department. Previously we discussed the em dash and the en dash. Today we will learn about the shortest in the dash-like family, the hyphen. Hyphen basics Hyphens link: a prefix … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago Manual of Style, copy editing, hyphen, prefix, style issues, suffix, word usage
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Parallel Sentence Structure, Or “Getting All Piet Mondrian On Your Writing”
Lesson: improving your writing by using parallelism In grammar, a series of related words, phrases, or clauses is considered to be parallel when each item in the series has a similar structure. This could mean, for example, nouns listed with … Continue reading
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Tagged comma, common grammar mistakes, grammar, humor, narwhal, parallel structure, Piet Mondrian, semantics, suffix
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Prefix and Suffix-athon
Native English speakers routinely squash prefixes and suffixes before and after words to alter their meanings. Often they do it without giving much thought as to what the few letters before or after actually mean. For instance, if someone is … Continue reading
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Tagged prefix, semantics, suffix, vocabulary, word usage
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