ENDING
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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ENDING. A grammatical or derivational element at the end of a WORD:
-s added to
horse to form the plural
horses, added to
sell to form the third-person singular
sells;
-ity added to
central to form
centrality. Elements like -
s are often referred to as
inflectional endings. Elements like
-ity may be referred to as
derivational endings, but are more commonly known as
suffixes. Inflectional endings may or may not be classed as suffixes. See
CLASSICAL ENDING,
INFLECTION.
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Indian Territory
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