What is morphology?
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The word unkindness, for example, consists of a root or stem (kind). a prefix (un) and a suffix (ness). A change in one of these morphemes or their addition/subtraction creates a new word. An example would be to add another suffix es to create a plural: unkindnesses
Inflection
English is what linguists call a 'weakly inflected' language. This means that there are fewer rules to remember.
For personal pronouns, for example, English has three cases: subjective (I, you, he etc), objective (me, you, him, her, it, us, them) and possessive (my, mine; your, yours etc).
Other languages have many more variants.