Unit 7.1
Prefixes and hyphens
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Introduction
Prefixes can be added before a word with or without a hyphen.
Form
- Structure:
Prefix + hyphen (-) + word
- This is the list of all the prefxes that admit a hyphen:
| anti | bi | co |
| contra | counter | de |
| extra | infra | inter |
| intra | micro | mid |
| multi | non | over |
| peri | post | pre |
| pro | proto | pseudo |
| re | semi | sub |
| super | supra | trans |
| tri | ultra | un |
| under | whole |
- To choose whether to add the hyphen or not you have to keep in mind that the hyphen often changes the meaning of the new word that you form.
Example
- Re-read
- Non-binary
- Extra-cheese
- Pseudo-science
Use
We hyphen in order to avoid confusion with other words with different meanings and to make the text more precise.
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