Prepared by :

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.