One of the keys to mastering English spellings is
mastering the processes of word formation. The mode of
word formation can influence the spelling. The study of the
meaningful parts of a word is known as morphology. Linguists
have identified many ways in which English form its words
which include borrowing from Latin and Greeks, clipping,
suppletion, affixation, conversion, acronym, blends,
compounding and so on. The scope of this study is to look
into affixation as a process of word formation; see the
meanings of some of those few letters added at the beginning
or end of words, look into the changes words undergo when
affixes are added to them. Apart from mastering of spellings,
readers of this paper will learn to identify grammatical
categories of words by mere looking at the words and
identifying the affixes added to them.