Morphemes morph (change) the root word

 

https://disneynews.us/character/morph/ (Archived)

+s is an overloaded morpheme!

Bare infinitives/ roots  see is the root form of 

{see, saw, sight, seeing, sees 

"see" turns out to be a good example because it has the infixed vowel change for past tense and it has that rare nominative form (cf. fear, fright)

The+s word ending indicates possession (x2), contraction, verb# agreement, plural

Spoken English: f r e n z

1. friend's, friends' (APOSTROPHE)
2. The friend's coming - The friend is coming
3. He friends me on Facebook each time that I delete him.
4. My friends and I play soccer together on Sundays.