Unhappy, Redo, Preview: Order of Ideas

Read about the prefixes un-, re-, and pre-, then put its ideas in the order the passage gives them.

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Prefixes are special word parts that come at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

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Prefixes are special word parts that come at the beginning of a word to change its meaning. The prefixes 'un-', 're-', and 'pre-' are very common. For example, 'un-' means 'not,' so 'happy' becomes 'unhappy,' which means 'not happy.

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' The prefix 're-' means 'again,' so 'do' becomes 'redo,' which means 'do again. ' Lastly, 'pre-' means 'before,' so 'view' becomes 'preview,' which means 'to see before. '

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Which of these ideas comes first in the passage?

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What comes right after this sentence: “Prefixes are special word parts that come at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.”

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