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Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.What is suffixation? Give an example to illustrate your point.
【正确答案】：

SUFFIXATION IS THE FORMATION OF NEW WORDS BY ADDING SUFFXES TO STEMS. SUFFIXES GENERALLY CHANGE THE WORD CLASS. FOR EXAMPLE, "EMPLOY" IS A VERB, BUT"EMPLOYER" BECOMES A NOUN WHEN THE SUFFIX -ER IS ADDED TO THE STEM"EMPLOY". 

【题目解析】：词缀是在词干上加词缀而形成新词的过程。后缀改变了词类而不是它的意思。例如，employ（雇用）是动词，但是当加了后缀-er的时候就变成了名词employer（雇主）。