INFLECTIONS
Ade sudirman, S.Pd.
English Morphology Course

INTRODUCTION
Inflection is a particular bound morph expressing
an inflectional distinction ( Trask, 1993)
Inflection is grammatical marker, such as an affix,
that is used as a signal of a grammatical property
(Spears, 1991).
The inflections can not change the words class of
derived bases.

VERB AGREEMENT
A noun phrase functioning as a subject usually agrees with
its verb in a clause.
A phrase is a group of words that has particular meaning.
A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a
verb.
Independent clause is a complete sentence containing the
main subject and verb (it is also called as main clause).
Dependent clause is uncomplete sentence. It must be
connected to a main clause. It is usually started by
“conjunctions”.

VERB AGREEMENT
Shaneel is an English
student. She studies
English everyday.
Everyone knows her and
claims that she is a smart
girl. Because, she has a
good skill in English
courses, especially in
morphology course.
Shaneel are an English
student. She study English
everyday. Everyone know
her and claim that she are
a smart girl. Because, she
have a good skill in
English courses, especially
in morphology course.

PERSON & NUMBER AGREEMENT
The child are playing
soccer.
The box are heavy.
The teacher teach us patiently.
He have to go to the
campus.
The student are writing
on my expensive brown
note book.
The children are playing
soccer.
The boxes are heavy.
The teachers teach us
patiently.
They have to go to the campus.
The students are writing
on my expensive brown
note book.

INTENSIFIERS
Intensifier is a lexical category, or a member of this category,
whose members typically function as modifiers on an adjective or
adverb and express the degree to which the quality expressed by
that item is present (Trask, 1993)
Very : The white history book is very expensive.
Extremely : The boy is exteremly naughty.
So
: He ran so fast.
Too : The Semantics class is too difficult for them.
Rather : Coolsum looks rather unhappy.

GENETIVE MARKERS
English genetive or
possesive markers are
–s, of and –s’.
Abda’s picture
The legs of the chair
James’ Chevrolet
The teachers’ bags
The teacher’s bag
Students’ achievement

NOUN PLURAL MARKERS
English plural markers
can be represented by
zero af fix, vowel
changes (double –e-)
and suf fixes –s, -es, and
–en on the nouns.
Sheep = sheep
Tooth = teeth
Book = books
Box = boxes
Ox = oxen

INFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS
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Inflectional morphemes signal
grammatical information such as
number, tense, possesion, and so
on.
They are only found in suffixes in
English.
No change of meaning.
Never change the syntactic
category of the words or
morpheme to them which they are
attached.
They are always attached to
completed words.
Infelction morphemes typically
follow derivational morphemes.
1. Walk – walked.
2.Boys, Mar y’s,
swimming.
3.Toy vs Toys.
4.5. Eat – eating
(N-N).
6. Unlikehoodunlikehoods (not
*unlikeslihood)

THE END
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