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Inflectional Rules of Morphology: English Inflectional Morphemes: 1: (S) Third Person, Singular, Present
Inflectional Rules of Morphology: English Inflectional Morphemes: 1: (S) Third Person, Singular, Present
Suppletions :
Suppletion in linguistic morphology refers to the use of a “Particular form
of verb “, that is not related to the “ main form of the verb".
Eg. “ went" is a particular form of a verb (ie past tense),and is not related to
the main form verb (ie. “go") . Similarly the paradigm for the verb “be" is
characterized by suppletions “Am" ,are , is , was , were , etc.
Conjugation :
Conjugation in Linguistic refers to an alteration in the form of verbs.
Eg.
Drive, drove , driven, Drives, and Driving , are the different alteration
regarding single verb ie “ drive" similarly the forms of verb like “Drive" ,“drank”
,drunk, drinks, and drinking , are some of the other examples in this regard.
Declension:
Declension refers to a kind of grammatical process in which some sets
of nouns, adjectives and pronouns change their original forms or ending. Eg .
Noun :
Book , books , pen , pens , city , cities, mouse , mice , leaf leaves, child,
children etc.
Adjectives:
Wise , wiser , wisest
Far , farther , farthest
Noble , Nobler , Noblest
Pronouns:
(He , she , it , they , etc )
(I , we ) , (My , Mine )
( Our , Ours ) , ( Me , Us ), ( your , yours ) etc.
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