Phonetics

The word as a grammatical unit has its form (grammatical and meaning (lexical and grammatical). Grammatical forms of words are typically constructed by morphemes added synthetically, or structurals added analytically:

• The word as a grammatical unit has its form (grammatical and meaning (lexical and grammatical). Grammatical forms of words are typically constructed by morphemes added synthetically, or structurals added analytically:
• Number: book – books, family – families, leaf – leaves.
• Case: my sister’s children, the title of the book, the students’ papers.
• Aspect: was drawing – drew, repaired – have repaired – have been repairing.
• Degrees of comparison: cold – colder – the coldest, difficult – more difficult – the most difficult, less interesting – the least interesting.

There are the following ways of changing grammatical forms of words:

• There are the following ways of changing grammatical forms of words:
• e(s) (the plural of nouns, the possessive of nouns, the 3rd person singular of Present Simple); 
• ing (Present Participle, Gerund); 
• er/est (Comparative and Superlative Degrees); 
• ed (the Past Simple of the Indicative Mood, the Subjunctive Mood, Past Participle)

Sound interchanges: (e.g. speak – spoke, crisis – crises, write – wrote, wife – wives, analysis – analyses).

• Sound interchanges: (e.g. speak – spoke, crisis – crises, write – wrote, wife – wives, analysis – analyses).
• Suppletivity as creating grammatical forms of a word coming from different roots (e.g. far – further, he – him, bad – worst, was – been).

The word combines in its semantic structure two meanings - lexical and grammatical. Lexical meaning is the individual meaning of the word (e.g. table). Grammatical meaning is the meaning of the whole class or a subclass. For example, the class of nouns has the grammatical meaning of thingness.

• The word combines in its semantic structure two meanings - lexical and grammatical. Lexical meaning is the individual meaning of the word (e.g. table). Grammatical meaning is the meaning of the whole class or a subclass. For example, the class of nouns has the grammatical meaning of thingness.