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Re: (Separable) suffixes?

From:Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...>
Date:Thursday, February 22, 2007, 11:08
Philip Newton wrote:
> On 2/22/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com > <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote: >> I don't see any way those could be called suffixes. > > Word spacing is an artefact of orthography. Why shouldn't the parts of > English phrasal verbs (or whatever they were called again) that look > like prepositions be considered verb suffixes? > > Cheers,
"A red bolt flashed from his palm toward the elven lady, illuminating the trees with a bloody light." (from Eragon) In the sentence above, "from" could be considered a verb suffixes. But what about "toward" and "with"? JF

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Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
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