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This little book has a two-fold object it is intended for a Reader and Reciter, and also to help those beginners who find some difficulty in using the correlatives and affixes correctly.

The story taken for illustration is one out of the collection known as Esperantaj Prozaĵoj, and has been chosen on account of the suffixes and prefixes used in the story, some 24 occurring in its course.

It must not be forgotten that these suffixes and prefixes may themselves be used as independent words, as well as in helping to form compound words.

Dr. Zamenhof says in his Fundamenta Krestomatio : -

" I arranged a complete dismemberment of ideas into independent words, so that the whole language, instead of words in different grammatical forms, consists only of unchangeable words. If you take any work written in my language, you will find that every word appears always and only in one unalterable form, namely, that in which it is printed in the Dictionary. The various grammatical inflections are expressed by the junction of unchangeable syllables."

Thus prefixes and suffixes such as -aĵ-, -ec-, -em-,

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Copyright, 1907, by Fleming H. Revell Company