Tag Archives: negative prefixes
All the Same but Different Posted by Gary Locke on Jun 1, 2018
There are examples in the English language where important and common prefixes all mean the same, and yet are different. What makes this so confusing is that the prefixes are not interchangeable. In other words, it is easy to use the wrong one! A prefix, as you probably know, is a letter or combination of…
Negative prefixes in English Posted by Gabriele on Dec 1, 2015
I don’t ever want my readers to get negative about learning English, which is why I try to keep this blog upbeat and interesting, but today we are going to focus on something…negative. This post isn’t about being negative. Instead it is about using negative prefixes in English. To start, there are many different prefixes…