An Analysis of Inflectional Morphemes in a Short Story “The Child’s Story” by Charles Dickens

This study aims to determine the inflectional morpheme contained in short story entitled "The Child's Story" by Charles Dickens. The analysis shows that there are 108 morphemes found Story". There 35 plural nouns “-s”, “-es” with 32.5% percentage as most dominant this story. Next, possessive “-'s”, “-s'” and comparative adjectives “-er” both show 2 data (1.8%), superlative “-est” 3 (2.7%), 3rd person singular/present tense “-s” 4 (3.7%), verb past “-ed”/”-d” 29 (26.9%), Present participle “-ing” 32 (29.7%), “-en” 1 (0.9%). In addition, Inflectional does not change grammatical category of words consisting "-s, -'s, -er, -est, -s, -ed, -ing, -en". suffix means plural. possessive. ending comparative. superlative. “-ed” past. current (continuous). participle.
 Keywords: Morphology, Words, Inflectional, Morphemes, Suffixes.