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Stem: a morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix may be added, e.g.: friend+-s; write+-ing, possibility+-es. * A stem can be a bound root, a free morpheme, or a derived form itself. e.g.: *toler- (root) + affix –ate: tolerate忍受 *quick (free morpheme) + affix –ly: quickly *careless (a derived form) + affix less Inflectional affix: Bound morphemes which are for the most part purely grammatical markers, signifying such concepts as tense, number, case etc. e.g.: -ed, -s, -er He had regular features. 他五官端正。 You will be for the high jump when whey find out you’ve cras