ُُEnglish Inflectional Morphemes

English has only eight inflectional morphemes. They are underlined in the following sentences:

Jim's two sisters are really different.

One likes to have fun and is always laughing.

The other liked to read as a child and has always taken things seriously.

One is the loudest person in the house and the other is quieter than a mouse.

In the first sentence, both inflections (-'s, -s) are attached to nouns, one marking possessive and the other marking plural. Note that –'s here is a possessive inflection and is different from –'s used as an abbreviation for is or has (e.g. She's singing, it's happened again). There are four inflections attached to verbs : -s (3rd person singular), -ing (present participle), -ed (past tense) and –en (past participle). There are two inflections attached to adjectives: -er (comparative) and –est (superlative). In English, all inflectional morphemes are suffixes.

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