Dictionary of Prefixes and Suffixes: Useful English Affixes (English Word Power) Paperback – January 25, 2014

I do not have time to make my own book for class, and I don't have to because this book gives my students all the affixes they need to know. This book is very important to my middle school curriculum, and in the end-of-the-year survey, students mentioned this book and the one on roots as being the best reference book in the classroom.

So informative. A must buy with the root words book. I’ve been looking for books like this for a long time and glad I found it.

When I first got this book, I was excited, because there are not a lot of resources available that give both the meaning and the form (nouns, adj, etc) of prefixes and suffixes. However, as I worked through this book, I realized that the author does not understand some of the basics of prefixes & suffixes. For example, he lists -D as a suffix, and gives a whole list of -ED suffix words (where the E in the root word was dropped). In addition, he lists many suffixes that are actually either root words or combinations of more than one suffix. For example, he lists -lessness as a suffix, when in fact lessness is a combination of the suffixes -less and -ness. If all you need are some word lists that have letters in common, you can use this book. But if you want accuracy, this is not a good book. I also noticed that the author has published many other resources related to the English language, but his "about the author" page has grammatical errors. "He is science graduate." "He has done three diploma courses."

It was used for review.

Useful

Great addition to any library

Really great resource.

This dictionary is not what I expected. I was looking for a "Websters" like dictionary that I could look up prefixes and suffixes just like a regular dictionary. This will do but its not as extensive as I needed.