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Inflections, Verbs in the base form without any inflectional ending are…

- - - - - non-count nouns (nouns that cannot be made plural)
      - - count nouns (nouns which have a plural form)
        
        They have either a regular (-s plural) or an irregular ending.
      - - aggregate nouns are neither count or non-count nouns; they are nouns which refer to entities made up of several parts (such as goods).
      - - collective nouns are nouns which refer to groups but grammatically they are count nouns since they have both singolar and plural forms (as family)
    - - In English, possession can be denoted bu an inflectional ending, -'s. However, we need to make a distinction between the possessive inflection and a possessive meaning, denoted with the of-construction
        
        Possessive inflections can be added to both singular and plural nouns.
        
        Group possessive: It is possible for the possessive inflection to apply to a word group rather then an individual noun (Chris and Jonathan's)
- - - - the to infinitive (to write)
      - the bare infinitive (write)
    - - 1) -s inflection which marks the third person singular of the present tense
      - 2) -ing inflection, also known as the -ing participle
      - 3) -ed inflection which is used to construct the past tense
      - 4) -ed participle takes the same form as the regular past tense inflection butt we make a distinction between these two inflections because their functions are different and also because irregular verbs may have different forms for the past tense and the -ed participle