The document discusses inflectional affixes and provides examples of their uses including plural forms, possession markers, third person singular verb markers, tense markers, and pronouns. It includes a table showing how affixes can be added to word roots to change words' grammatical functions through inflection. Examples are given of affixes changing words like "book" to "books" and verbs like "work" to forms like "worked."
The document discusses inflectional affixes and provides examples of their uses including plural forms, possession markers, third person singular verb markers, tense markers, and pronouns. It includes a table showing how affixes can be added to word roots to change words' grammatical functions through inflection. Examples are given of affixes changing words like "book" to "books" and verbs like "work" to forms like "worked."
The document discusses inflectional affixes and provides examples of their uses including plural forms, possession markers, third person singular verb markers, tense markers, and pronouns. It includes a table showing how affixes can be added to word roots to change words' grammatical functions through inflection. Examples are given of affixes changing words like "book" to "books" and verbs like "work" to forms like "worked."
plural forms possessions 3rd sing verb tense marker pronouns
marker -s/ -en John’s book mother always he worked She is a cooks rice hard yesterday teacher book - books John and Jack goes to I have I met her glass - glasses Mary’s house school repeated the yesterday lesson ox - oxen a dog’s tail He never we are Is this bag child - children watches TV studying hers? yes, it’s fish - fish English her bag Look at the table DA ROOT (BASE) DA DA IA NEW WORDS il- legal -ly illegally in act -ive -ly inactively fertile -ise -s fertilises fertile -ise -ed fertilised fertile -ise -er -s fertilisers organ -ise -s organisers organ -ise -ed organised organ -ise -ion -s organisations Practice 1 identify whether the words below contain DA, IA or both
1. undo 11. respectable
2. pieces 12. meanings mean(V) - ing (N) -s 3. John’s 13. grateful 4. prosperous 14. women 5. rapidly 15. unbutton un- button 6. children 16. failures fail -ure -s/ failed 7. tempts 17. injury 8. irrational 18. kingdom king -dom DA 9. jumped 19. artists art -ist -s (noun) 10. symbolises symbol - ise -s 20. planned 11. symbolize US Practice 2 Underline the words which undergo inflectional changes
The discussion ended up with almost all participants in agreement.