Derivational

and
Inflectional
Morphemes
Prepared by: Mary Rose Barrion
 Table of contents
Derivational and Means of marking
1 Inflectional Morphemes 2 selection

Analysis
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Inflectional
and
Derivational
Morphemes
 Inflectional
Morphemes
functional and grammatical
change in the word
Ex. girl+s
Examples:
SINGULAR PLURAL NON-PAST PAST

apple apple-s work work-ed

car car-s jump jump-ed

dog dogs hunt hunt-ed

8 Types of Inflectional Morphemes
s – third person sing.
present 1
ex: She stay-s at
home.
ed- past tense
ex: She stay-ed at 2
home.
TYPES OF INFLECTION
ing- progressive
ex: She is stay-ing at 3
home.

s- plural
ex: She wrote novel-s. 3
8 Types of Inflectional Morphemes
en-past participle
ex: She has eat-en at 5
home.

s- possessive
ex: Marie’s car is new. 6
TYPES OFINFLECTION
er- comparative
This road is long-er than 7
that.
est-superlative
ex: This is the long-est
road.
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Derivational Morphemes
• changes to word class or original
meaning
• In derivation a new word is
formed by adding an affix to the
base.
NOUN DERIVATION
VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE NOUN

sell sell-er kind kind-ness

teach teach-er good good-ness

read read-ing black Black-ness

NOUN NOUN

mother mother-hood
ADJECTIVE DERIVATION
NOUN ADJECTIVE VERB ADJECTIVE

care care-ful read read-able

faith faith-ful love love-able

ADJECTIVE ADJECTIVE

common un-common

possible Im-possible
VERB DERIVATION
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE VERB

hospital hospital-ize legal legal-ize

slave en-slave rich en-rich

VERB VERB

activate de-activate

continue Dis-continue
Derivational Morpheme
Analysis
 compete

compete ition

super compete itive

super compete tively

compete ing
1. I jumped into the puddle this morning.
2. She is an environmentalist.
3. This is unbelievable.
4. I have John’s umbrella.
5. Emannuel goes to school.
Thank you!
Structural
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 Correctness of
Language Form
 Directions: Choose the correct word or words that will
complete each sentence.

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