Read this story:
a reporter turns in an article about an exciting new
scientific study on tool use in armenian box turtles, but her
editor informs her that she needs to cut the piece to half
its length. the reporter cuts several quotations from
scientists criticizing the study's weaknesses.
which term describes the reporter's activity in this story?

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

He takes his shirt off then high fives the mascot but eventually will get a red card