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Negative Prefixes in English: UN-, DIS-, NON-, A-, AB-, AN-, ANTI-
Do you know how to turn positive words into negative words? It’s easy when you know your negative prefixes, which is the focus of this lesson. A prefix is one or more letters we add in front of a word to modify its meaning. There are many kinds of prefixes, but today we will talk about the prefixes that turn a word into its negative. As an example, you can turn “happy” into “unhappy”, “honest” into “dishonest”, and “fiction” into “non-fiction”. There are 12 different negative prefixes in English. This lesson will cover seven of them. The other five are covered my other lesson here, so be sure to complete your negative prefix collection by watching the other lesson after this one.
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Thank you so much for your lesson and your clear explanations.
Btw, shouldn´t it be a hyphen in question number one?
Thanks for your kind words :-) As mentioned in the video, the word ‘nonsense’ doesn’t have a hyphen, unlike the other examples I gave. The English language is full of exceptions!!
Ohhh yes, I´ve watched the video once again and you explained it in minute 9:16. Sorry for the stupid question and thanks again Gill!!
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I don’t know that also a- and an- are used as a negative prefix with some words!
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All correct
I got 10/10, but i still quite embarrassing when change from normal to abnormal, that is rarely see it in sentences. Thank Gill so much
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Hi! There are the same. I think counterclockwise will be used in the USA.
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Amazing ? and very simple explanation
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Hallo, Mrs Gill! You overlooked about “able” in the end of the lesson. Could you explain, please, negative variants of “able”: unable, disable? Thank you!
for quiz 1, there is no (-) for non-sense,
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90% without watching video )
study english is abnormal for me on a regular basis :D
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The prefixe MIS- is missing, but I am confident there will be more lessons about negative prefixes. Thank you for you invaluable lessons.
“prefix”, of course (a typo, as always).
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The lesson was very interesting.
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Thank you Gil for the video, Clarify for me please. Can’t I say unable or I have to say not able?
You can say UNABLE :)
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10/10
The lesson was very interesting.
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Dear Mrs. Gill, I like, how eloquent you are. Thanks for this lesson. Each verb was well described!
Nice exercise
teacher it was a good lesson but I had noted something in the quiz Why you did not but Dash between non and sense in question one thanks .
Thank you very much. I got 10 of 10.
excuse me teacher but I think that antisocial is a personality and who have this personality do a lot of crimes.Actually they haven’t human conscience.
for example:joker is a antisocial person.
so is tony Montana (in the Scarface movie).
they may sometime popular for group of people.
I corrected-Joker is a antisocial person.
Tony Montana
Joker is proper noun so I must write it with capitalized first letter.
Thank You Gill Mam