The author’s purpose in including this passage is to

explain to the reader the way people dressed in Black Stamps.
instruct the reader on the local customs in Black Stamps.
inform the reader of Mrs. Flowers’s social position in Black Stamps.
teach the reader how Mrs. Flowers’s fashion affected Black Stamps.

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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

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