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1. Suffix

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   A suffix (from Latin suffixus, past participle of suffigere, 'to affix underneath') is an affix that follows the stem or root of a word. In morphological analysis, suffixes are classified based on their function, typically belonging to either derivational morphology (creating new words or changing word class) or inflectional morphology (marking [grammatical features…

2. Suffix

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   The distinction between the two primary functional classes of suffixes is central to morphological theory:
   Inflectional Suffixes: These suffixes express grammatical relations necessary for sentence construction but do not alter the lexical category of the base/). For instance, in English, the plural marker $/-s/$ added to cat ($\text{cat} + /-s/ \rightarrow \t…