Prepared by :

Aisyatul Nur Zainol

Mohd Ikhram Ishak
Muhammad Amir Aminuddin

5 SNED 1
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.

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) 

 A verb remains a verb no matter the inflectional morpheme, and a noun a

noun.
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.