... (present participle), and ‘looked’ (past participle). These additionalmorphemes are all suffixes – they follow the root word.Most English grammatical morphemes are suffixes, though in the past English ... a beginning learner of English, an elementary word-for-word translatingdictionary will be pretty hopeless.Words and their partsThe notion of a word is therefore not particularly straightforward, ... ‘anti-raygun’, and so on.Over the course of the development of English, most new words in the language have been free morphemes borrowed from other languages or adapted from existingwords as set out above....