Inflectional Suffixes

Most nouns take the inflectional suffix _____ to make a plural noun.

• -x

• -ish

• -ize

• -s

Which is NOT true about inflectional morphemes?

• have only grammatical function

• always come before any derivational morphemes

• never change the part of speech of the root

• always suffixes in English

Inflectional morphemes do not change the words' meaning or class, they just add more ______________.

• Grammatical information to the word.

• Strategical information to the word.

• Information to the word.

• different meaning to words

Bound Moprhemes are divided in.....

• free - bound

• inflectional - derivational

• derivational - bound

Change the words in the brackets into people by adding suffixes

She has been a stamp (COLLECT) _______for ages.

• ER

• OR

• IAN

• IST

Change the words in the brackets into people by adding suffixes

The (MANAGE)_______ of the football club resigned because it was the fourth defeat in a row.

• ER

• OR

• IAN

• IST

Change the words in the brackets into people by adding suffixes

He was the only (SURVIVE)_____ in a plane crash that killed 8 people.

• ER

• OR

• IAN

• IST

Change the words in the brackets into people by adding suffixes

The film (DIRECT)_____ gave the whole crew the afternoon off. Shooting would start again at 9 the following morning.

• ER

• OR

• IAN

• IST

Change the words in the brackets into people by adding suffixes

He always wanted to be a (WRITE)______, so we weren't surprised when his first novel came out.

• ER

• OR

• IAN

• IST

Describe the underlined affix:

oxen

• inflectional prefix

• inflectional suffix

• derivational prefix

• derivational suffix