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Which of these processes was used to form the word movie? Use a dictionary if necessary. prefix addition suffix addition compounding telescoping shortening back formation

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Answer:

A shortening of the word and Moving Pictures

Step-by-step explanation:

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The word Movie is actually a shortening of the word :

Moving Pictures

Shortening is more referred as clipping in the word formation process. It consists on the reduction of a word to one of its parts . Clipping is also known as "truncation".

So, to give final answer to this question, the process that was used to form Movie is:

Shortening

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