ENG 411B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Possessive Determiner, Adverb, Inflection
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Verb inflections: every verb has an uninflected (or infinitive) form there are only 4 inflectional morphemes that can attach to the infinitive form. Used to indicate past tense of a regular verb. The inside of the canoe got pretty wet. past-participle inflection. Used with the helping verb have to form the present perfect and past perfect. I had wanted a salad. present- participle inflection. Used with the helping verb be to form the present progressive. Verbs ending in s take es toss tosses. Irregular verbs can inflect by changing their vowel ride rode or take no change: cut cut some change more than a vowel, go went. For most regular verbs, the past- participle inflection is ed, just like the past-tense inflection. The present participle inflection also often occurs as a noun modifier the sleeping baby: a rolling stone. Adjective inflections: adjectives take 2 inflections comparative and superlative.
