Words to Your Mother: Enclitic

An enclitic is a clitic that always binds to another word.

Okay, that probably wasn't very helpful.

A clitic is something that basically acts like a word but is always followed or preceded by another word: it never appears on its own.  An enclitic actualy attaches itself to therelated word.  Examples:

I'm
You're
She's
They'll
They've

The boldface sections are enclitics.

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