Inflectional Affixes

• When affixes affect grammatical patterns/ functions

• Plural forms, possessions, 3rd singular verb marker,
tense markers, pronouns

plural forms possessions 3rd sing verb tense marker pronouns

marker
-s/ -en John’s book mother always he worked She is a
cooks rice hard yesterday teacher
book - books John and Jack goes to I have I met her
glass - glasses Mary’s house school repeated the yesterday
lesson
ox - oxen a dog’s tail He never we are Is this bag
child - children watches TV studying hers? yes, it’s
fish - fish English her bag
Look at the table
DA ROOT (BASE) DA DA IA NEW WORDS
il- legal -ly illegally
in act -ive -ly inactively
fertile -ise -s fertilises
fertile -ise -ed fertilised
fertile -ise -er -s fertilisers
organ -ise -s organisers
organ -ise -ed organised
organ -ise -ion -s organisations
Practice 1 identify whether the words below contain DA, IA or both

1. undo 11. respectable

2. pieces 12. meanings mean(V) - ing (N) -s
3. John’s 13. grateful
4. prosperous 14. women
5. rapidly 15. unbutton un- button
6. children 16. failures fail -ure -s/ failed
7. tempts 17. injury
8. irrational 18. kingdom king -dom DA
9. jumped 19. artists art -ist -s (noun)
10. symbolises symbol - ise -s 20. planned
11. symbolize US
Practice 2 Underline the words which undergo inflectional changes

The discussion ended up with almost all participants in agreement.

Tony has spelt too many words wrongly

The province was densely populated after the war