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Derivation is the word formation process in which a derivational affix attaches to the base

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:

verb to verb: appear disappear


noun to noun: friend friendship
adjective to adjective: practical impractical
verb to noun: preserve preservation
verb to adjective: bore boring
noun to verb: code codify
noun to adjective: nature natural
adjective to noun: ugly ugliness
adjective to verb: sweet sweeten
adjective to adverb: quick quickly

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:

Bitter adjective + sweet adjective bittersweet adjective


Rain noun + bow noun rainbow noun
Sleep verb + walk verb sleepwalk verb
With preposition + out preposition without preposition
Pick verb + pocket noun pickpocket noun
Spoon noun + feed verb spoon-feed verb
Over preposition + do verb overdo verb

Compounding word consist of three part namely :


1. Close form is combining two or more independent words that
Examples:
Tootbrush
Newspaper
Software
2. Open form is combining several words that write become two word or separated.
Examples:
Upper class
Full time
Snow white
3. Hyphen (-) is word that quota with quotation mark (-)
Examples:
Check-in
Twenty-yeard-old
1. Back-formation
Back-formation is another special kind of reduction. A word of one type (may be noun)
is reduced to another word of another type (may be verb). For instance: television became
televise, donation became donate, option became emote, emotion became emote

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