What is an example of a base word?
An example of a base word is the word “help.” “Help” is an independent word but it can also be used to form complex words like “unhelpful,” “helpless,” or “helper” by adding a suffix and/or a prefix.
An example of a base word is the word “help.” “Help” is an independent word but it can also be used to form complex words like “unhelpful,” “helpless,” or “helper” by adding a suffix and/or a prefix.
Want to contact us directly? No problem. We are always here for you.
Our team helps students graduate by offering:
Scribbr specializes in editing study-related documents. We proofread:
The Scribbr Plagiarism Checker is powered by elements of Turnitin’s Similarity Checker, namely the plagiarism detection software and the Internet Archive and Premium Scholarly Publications content databases.
The Scribbr Citation Generator is developed using the open-source Citation Style Language (CSL) project and Frank Bennett’s citeproc-js. It’s the same technology used by dozens of other popular citation tools, including Mendeley and Zotero.
You can find all the citation styles and locales used in the Scribbr Citation Generator in our publicly accessible repository on Github.