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Word Formation
Compounding Word- Process of adding two or more words to form a new word with hyphen or without hyphen.
for Instance- Household, Classroom,Mother-in- law.

Conversion- Kind of word formation to create new word by changing parts of speech.
Ex- Red( Adjective) - Redden( verb)
Free ( verb)- Freedom ( Noun).

Clipping- Kind of Word Formation that's process of reducing part or parts from stem word to create new word.
Clipping has four types -
1) Back Clipping- Back word is removed & Front word is retained.
Eg- Temperature- Temp, Rhinceros- Rhino, Gymnasium- Gym.

2) Fore clipping- Front word is removed and Back word is retained.
Eg- Helicopter - Copter, Aeroplane- Plane, Telephone- phone.

3) Mixed Clipping- Back and front word are removed, only middle one is retained....