By comparing average income for people in the 65 to 74 year age group to the average income they made 10 years earlier in the 55 to 64 year age group, I found that retirees have an approximately 23 percent drop in real income.
Definition of Morpheme. A morpheme is the smallest syntactical and meaningful linguistic unit that contains a word, or an element of the word such as the use of âs whereas this unit is not divisible further into smaller syntactical parts.
1 Derivational morphemes, when combined with a root, change either the semantic meaning or part of speech of the affected word. 2  For example, in the word happiness, the addition of the bound morpheme-ness to the root happy changes the word from an adjective (happy) to a noun (happiness). Inflectional morphemes modify a verb 's tense or a noun's number without affecting the word's meaning or class. 2  Examples of applying inflectional morphemes to words are adding-s to the root dog to form dogs and adding-ed to wait to form waited. 3  In English, there are eight inflections.