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form of a word to create a new word. The derived word is often of a different word class
from the original. It may thus take the inflectional affixes of the new word class.
Example:
Inflections is A process of word formation in which items are added to the base form of a
word to express grammatical meanings. Inflections in English include the genitive; the
plural; the third-person singular verb; the past tense; -ing forms of verbs; the comparative;
and the superlative.
Example:
Janes car
Book books
Jump jumps
Jump jumping
Watch watched
Tall taller
Tall tallest
Root is the irreducible core of a word, with absolutely nothing else attached to it. E.g. jumpjumps, jumping, jumped. Here, jump is the root.
Stem is that part of a word that exists before the addition of any inflectional morpheme. E.g.
worker workers; shift shifted; destabilized stabile as a root while destabilize as stem
Base is any unit of a word where any kind of affixes can be added. It could be both
inflectional or derivational. E.g. boy boys, boy boyish, boy boyhood
1. Compounding:
Compounding is the word formation process by which new words are formed by
combining two or more independent words. For example: