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Ssharbo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Inflectional and Lexical Suffixes.
How can I determine the difference between a inflectional suffix between a lexical suffix?
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I'm not sure if there is a simple way, as such. Assuming that you know what inflectional and lexical suffixes are and how they differ, you can usually tell simply by looking at a word. Inflectional suffixes are used to change the properties of a word to express a different tense, mood, voice, or other grammatical category.
- I'm not sure if there is a simple way, as such.
- Assuming that you know what inflectional and lexical suffixes are and how they differ, you can usually tell simply by looking at a word.
- Inflectional suffixes are used to change the properties of a word to express a different tense, mood, voice, or other grammatical category.
- This is known as conjugation for verbs and declension for nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.
- , nouns from verbs or adverbs from adjectives.
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I'm not sure if there is a simple way, as such. Assuming that you know what inflectional and lexical suffixes are and how they differ, you can usually tell simply by looking at a word. Inflectional suffixes are used to change the properties of a word to express a different tense, mood, voice, or other grammatical category. This is known as conjugation for verbs and declension for nouns, adjective
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ssharboHow can I determine the difference between a inflectional suffix between a lexical suffix?Memorize all the inflectional suffixes. All the rest are lexical suffixes.
Some inflectional suffixes for
verbs: -s, -ing, -d, -ed, -n, -en;
adjectives: -er, -est;
nouns: -s
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