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Laurel School

Upper School: Junior/Senior Seminar

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Truncation: adding a symbol* to a root word to locate various forms of that word

Examples: 

teen* would locate teen, teens, teenage, teenager, teenagers

child$ would locate child, children, children's, childhood

*Note:  Symbols may vary depending on the resource you are using, e.g., *, $, !, or #

  • Check the help section of the resource for correct symbol to use.

Wildcard:  Substituting a symbol for a letter in a word to locate various forms of that word

Example:  wom!n to locate woman and women