Extremum & Inflection Finding and Confirming the Points of Extremum & Inflection.
Inflection Morpheme
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Transcript of Inflection Morpheme
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Aisyatul Nur ZainolMohd Ikhram IshakMuhammad Amir Aminuddin
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Inflectional morphemes signal grammatical information. They are thus often called bound grammatical morphemes.
inflectional morphemes and their influence on a base word is predictable.
Inflectional morphemes modify a word without changing its meaning.
A verb remains a verb no matter the inflectional morpheme, and a noun a noun.
Never change the syntactic category of the words or morpheme to they which they are attached. Examples: walk vs. walked or walks (V--> V) boy vs. boys (N --> N) eat vs. eating (progressive) (V-->V)
English Inflectional Morphemes Examples -s third person singular present She waits at home. -ed past tense She waited at home. -ing progressive She is eating the donut. -en past participle Mary has eaten the donuts. -s plural She ate the donuts. -’s possessive Disa's hair is short. -er comparative Disa has shorter hair than Karin. -est superlative Disa has the shortest hair.