Understand common prefixes meaning straight to help solve crossword puzzles faster. Learn tips and examples to master ...

Learn bow to use word parts, like prefixes and suffixes, to break big words down into understandable word parts. Special thanks to Great Lakes Now for the use of footage from their program ...

And perhaps no element of editing creates more opportunities for inconsistency than prefixes. Some prefixes use hyphens to attach to a word. Some don’t. Some work better with an en dash than a ...

Listening to the stress of the final syllable can help you when adding suffixes to words. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.

People love coining new words. And they love making good use of them—for a while anyway. Adultescence and Frankenstorm are just a couple of the creative blends that have once made it big but didn’t ...

As a word by itself—which is to say, not as a suffix— ish means more or less the same thing: kind of, thereabouts, in a way. And imagining how it broke free to become syntactically stand-alone ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 Words We Rarely (or Never) Use Without Their Prefixes.

Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt explains splinter words: endings of words larger than suffixes that behave similarly.

Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming.