Inflectional

Morphemes
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What are ‘inflectional finitio
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morphemes’?

Inflectional Morphemes are defined as units of

meaning that are added to the base or root of a word
to indicate grammatical information but the
meaning of the basic root words remain the same.
 The 8 inflectional morphemes
There are eight inflectional morphemes which indicate aspects such
as tense, number, possession, or comparison, all in suffixes:

1) s – is an indicator of a plural form of nouns

2) s’ – marks the possessive form of nouns
3) s – is attached to verbs in the third person singular
4) ed – is an indicator of the past tense of verbs
5) ing – indicates the present participle (present progressive)
6) en – marks past participle
t a ge 7) er – is attached to adjectives to show a comparative form
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8) est – is an indicator of the superlative form of adjectives
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