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morphology is the study of the rules for forming admissible words. The morphemes in the list on the left contribute in some way to the insertion of the words in a particular grammatical context, so that the word agrees with this context in terms of tense, number, person etc. The changes in meaning that these morphemes bring are minimal. These are called inflectional morphemes, note that these are all suffixes.The morphemes in the list on the right bring considerable semantic changes to the word, often word class is changed, e.g. modern (adj.) > modernise (v.); drink (v.) > drinkable (adj.); nation (n.) > national (adj). These are called derivational morphemes because they are used to derive new words. Derivational morphemes may be prefixes or suffixes.