Is this paragraph’s main idea stated or implied? contrary to what many people think, the sun is actually closer to earth during a northern hemisphere winter. earth’s orbit is an elliptical—or slightly oval—path around the sun. in early january, earth reaches its closest point to the sun, called the perihelion. at this time, earth is about 147 million kilometers from the sun. the farthest point on earth’s orbit of the sun is called the aphelion. at this time, earth is about 152 million kilometers from the sun. stated implied

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Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form