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How do you use Affixes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Affixes in a sentence

Affixes meaning

plural of affix

Using Affixes

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of affix
  • In the example corpus, affixes often appears in combinations such as: of affixes, affixes that, affixes are.

Context around Affixes

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

lexical 1× member 1× machine 1× morphemes 1× additional 1× separate 1× use 1×

Often after:

differ 1× see 1× goblets 1× serve 1×

Sentence patterns with Affixes

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

adding morphemes affixes at the 1× affixes do select 1× affixes on the 1× affixes serve to 1× affixes which cannot 1× any additional affixes are considered 1× appear as affixes 1× categories of affixes affixes are 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a crew member 1× a sealing machine 1× a single sentence 1× affixations the linguistic 1× affixes do select 1× affixes on the 1×

Common sentence endings:

a back slash 1× a beer can 1× a full vowel 1× appear as affixes 1× are considered morphemes 1× element of meaning 1×

Words around Affixes

Just before it in the word index:

affixed 124 affixation 2 affix 32 affirms 129 affirming 326 affirmed 511

Just after it in the word index:

affixing 14 affleck 309 afflerbach 2 afflict 26 afflicted 206 afflicting 47

Similar in corpus frequency:

absolve 59 acceptability 59 acetic 59 actuators 59 adulation 59 affirmations 59

Corpus analysis for Affixes

  • In this selection, "affixes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, lexical, member, machine, differ, see and goblets stand out and add context to how "affixes" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include adding morphemes affixes at the and affixes do select. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "affixes" sits close to words such as absolve, acceptability and acetic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with affixes

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Any additional affixes are considered morphemes. (6 words)

A crew member affixes goblets to a shelf with mounting tape. (11 words)

Affixes serve to modify or elaborate the meaning of the root. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

There’s a three-hit combo that is stagnant through the game, a boomerang-like toss which can reach farther enemies and hit them on return, and a few other tools which affixes to his wrist stump, like a grappling hook or shovel. (43 words)

Although some words like necessary are almost universally pronounced with the full vowel, older generations of Australians are relatively likely to pronounce these affixes with a schwa while younger generations are relatively likely to use a full vowel. (38 words)

Grammar The grammar is based on that of typical European languages, but with an agglutinative character: grammatical inflections are indicated by stringing together separate affixes for each element of meaning. (30 words)

Example sentences (20)

Although similar to incorporated nouns, lexical affixes differ in that they never occur as freestanding nouns, i.e. they always appear as affixes.

Positional categories of affixes Affixes are divided into plenty of categories, depending on their position with reference to the stem.

The most prominent grammatical characteristic of Bantu languages is the extensive use of affixes (see Sotho grammar and Ganda noun classes for detailed discussions of these affixes).

A crew member affixes goblets to a shelf with mounting tape.

A sealing machine affixes an aluminum top with a pop-up opening: again, akin to a beer can.

He said the DMK does not work but тАЬtakes false credit and affixes its stickers on central schemesтАЭ.

There’s a three-hit combo that is stagnant through the game, a boomerang-like toss which can reach farther enemies and hit them on return, and a few other tools which affixes to his wrist stump, like a grappling hook or shovel.

Affixations, the linguistic process speakers use form different words by adding morphemes (affixes) at the beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation) of words.

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Affixes do select their host: They only attach to the word they are connected to semantically, and generally attach to a particular part of speech.

Affixes, on the other hand, are often lexicalized and may simply not occur with certain words.

Affixes serve to modify or elaborate the meaning of the root.

Affixes which cannot be segmented are marked with a back slash.

Although some words like necessary are almost universally pronounced with the full vowel, older generations of Australians are relatively likely to pronounce these affixes with a schwa while younger generations are relatively likely to use a full vowel.

Any additional affixes are considered morphemes.

A single sentence in Ainu can be made up of many added or agglutinated sounds or affixes that represent nouns or ideas.

Contractions For Braille contractions are words and affixes that are shortened so that they take up fewer cells.

Examples include: * Sex indexes are affixes or inflections that index the sex of the speaker, e.g. the verb forms of female Koasati speakers take the suffix "-s".

Grammar The grammar is based on that of typical European languages, but with an agglutinative character: grammatical inflections are indicated by stringing together separate affixes for each element of meaning.

He then realised that a judicious use of affixes could greatly decrease the number of root words needed for communication.

However, it is common in many other languages to use affixes in order to specify subjects and objects, such as in Japanese, Russian and Basque.

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Common combinations with affixes

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "affixes" in a sentence?
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What does "affixes" mean?
Affixes means: plural of affix
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