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Examples of inflectional morphemes are: o Plural: -s, -z, -iz Like in: cats, horses, dogs o Tense: -d, -t, -id, -ing Like in: stopped, running, stirred, waited o Possession: -'s Like in: Alex's o Comparison: -er, -en Like in: greater, heighten *note that –er is also a derivational morpheme so don't mix them up!!
Answer: Derivation is the process of creating new words. The technical term derivational morphology is the study of the formation of new words. Here are some examples of words which are built up from smaller parts: black + bird combine to form blackbird.
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Here are examples of English derivational patterns and their suffixes:
adjective-to-noun: -ness (slow → slowness)
adjective-to-verb: -en (weak → weaken)
adjective-to-adjective: -ish (red → reddish)
adjective-to-adverb: -ly (personal → personally)
noun-to-adjective: -al (recreation → recreational)
Inflectional morphemes change what a word does in terms of grammar, but does not create a new word. The inflectional morphemes -ing and -ed are added to the base word skip, to indicate the tense of the word. If a word has an inflectional morpheme, it is still the same word, with a few suffixes added.
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Part of Speech Grammatical Category Examples
Noun Number Flower → Flowers Glass → Glasses
Noun, Pronoun Case (Genitive) Paul → Paul's Francis → Francis' It → Its
Pronoun Case (Reflexive) Him → Himself Them → Themselves
Verb Aspect (Progressive) Run → Running
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