• forbid     for-bid
• forget     for-get
• forgive   for-give 
• forgo      for-go 
• forswear  for-swear

Complex words are words that can be broken down into tow or more constituents words like buyer that have the word buy and the prefix er on the other hand simplex words are words that can not be broken down because they are in the simplest form of a word. . These set of words can be classified as complex because they can be deconstructed into two constituents. In this set of words the root of all these words is for followed by another lexical word. For instance the word forbid, this word consist of two constituents, for is a preposition which can be attached to the word the so its a lexical word and is attached by another lexical word bid . We see this with the words for-get a preposition connected with the verb get. Forgive has a preposition connected to the verb give.

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