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**Root word and suffixes** CLEVER PEOPLE HELP!!!

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:18

Right all you clever people, put on your thinking caps....I need a root word that has 3 attached suffixes.
I cannot think of any, can only think of words that have 2 added suffixes E.G. MUSIC + [b]AL[/b] = MUSICAL + [b]LY[/b] = MUSICALLY

heeellllp!!!!
TIA :D

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 27 March 2011 - 00:41
photo -- photograph--- photographical---photographically ?? pho - to - graph - i - cal - ly it has 5 suffixes http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/photographically :cool:
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 27 March 2011 - 00:23
nation - national - nationalize - nationalization
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:53
BFC - globalisation is also correct...we have gone with optimistically ..whew...watching rugby and having a few glasses of vino and having to help with homeworkk does not really gel well......:D
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EW GURU
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:48
How about globe - global - globalise - globalisation?
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EW GURU
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:47
I mean it has three affixes, sorry. Not three suffixes.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:46
But surely music -al-ity only has two suffixes, just like your first example? Un-music-al-ly has three!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:44
Thanks to a resourceful MIL over 10000 miles away...who phoned a friend on another continent....the answer is this: You take a NOUN, change it to an adjective and then change it again to an adverb. hence MUSIC IS THE ROOT WORD AND 3 SUFFIXES = MUSICALITY Well, I have learnt something tonight! :D :) Thanks for all the help!!!
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:41
Clever people? You came to EW?? LOL
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:38
joy: joyful, joyfully, joyfullness <em>edited by A Rancher on 26/03/2011</em>
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:35
Run-ran-running- runner Fight- fought- fighting – fighter
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:34
it has to be a root word that has 3 suffixes attached at the same time....
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 26 March 2011 - 19:29
shop - shopping- shopped- shopper ????
 
 

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