Suffixes
A
suffix is a group of letters placed at the
end of a word to make a
new word. A suffix can make a new word in one of two ways:
- inflectional (grammatical): for example, changing singular to plural (dog > dogs), or changing present tense to past tense (walk > walked). In this case, the basic meaning of the word does not change.
- derivational (the new word has a new meaning, "derived" from the original word): for example, teach > teacher or care > careful
Inflectional suffixes
Inflectional suffixes do not change the
meaning of the original word. So in "Every day I walk to school" and "Yesterday I walked to school", the words
walk and
walked have the same basic meaning. In "I have one car" and "I have two cars", the basic meaning of the words
car and
cars is exactly the same. In these cases, the suffix is added simply for grammatical "correctness".
Derivational suffixes
With derivational suffixes, the new word has a new
meaning, and is usually a different
part of speech. But the new meaning is related to the old meaning - it is "derived" from the old meaning.
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