Question

Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme?

• A. Quickly
• B. Played
• C. Rewrite
• D. Undo

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Played

An inflectional morpheme is a suffix or ending that changes a word's grammar without changing its meaning. For example, the suffix "-ed" added to the end of the word "play" changes it from the present tense to the past tense. 

Examples of inflectional morphemes: 

• -s: Used to indicate plurality, as in "cats"

• -ed: Used to indicate past tense, as in "babecued"

• -ing: Used to indicate present participle, as in "running"

• -er: Used to indicate comparative, as in "bigger"

• -est: Used to indicate superlative, as in "biggest"

• -'s: Used to indicate possession, as in "girl's"

Inflectional morphemes can be added to nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. They modify the word in which they occur to indicate grammatical properties.