Changing the structure of words in order to reflect their grammatical role (e.g. dog → dogs, give → gave) is known as
A) Inflectional morphology
B) Derivational morphology
C) Syntactic morphology
D) Grammatical morphology

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Inflectional morphology involves adding or changing morphemes at the end of a word to express grammatical information, such as tense, number, and gender. The examples given in the question (dog → dogs, give → gave) are examples of inflectional morphology. Derivational morphology involves adding morphemes to create new words or change the word's part of speech (e.g. happy → happiness, friend → friendly). Syntactic morphology and grammatical morphology are not terms commonly used to refer to this particular aspect of word structure.

Changing the Structure of Words in Order to Reflect Their