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Word Forms

Understanding Word Forms

Words change their form to express different grammatical functions. Understanding these patterns helps with proper grammar usage and language learning:

📝 Noun Forms

Singular → Plural: cat → cats, child → children, mouse → mice

Possessive: cat → cat's, cats → cats', children → children's

⚡ Verb Forms

Present: walk, walks (3rd person singular)

Past: walked (regular), went (irregular)

Present participle: walking, going

Past participle: walked, gone

🎯 Adjective Forms

Positive: big, beautiful, good

Comparative: bigger, more beautiful, better

Superlative: biggest, most beautiful, best

🔄 Derived Forms

Noun → Adjective: beauty → beautiful, care → careful

Verb → Noun: act → action, teach → teacher

Adjective → Adverb: quick → quickly, easy → easily

Common Formation Rules:

Regular Plurals:
  • Add -s: cat → cats
  • Add -es: box → boxes
  • -y → -ies: city → cities
Regular Past Tense:
  • Add -ed: walk → walked
  • Drop -e, add -ed: hope → hoped
  • Double + -ed: stop → stopped
Comparatives:
  • Short words: big → bigger
  • Long words: more beautiful
  • Irregular: good → better
💡 Learning Tip:

Pay special attention to irregular forms as they don't follow standard patterns. Common irregular verbs include: be/was/been, go/went/gone, take/took/taken, and many others.